“The man who attacked you had no idea how to kill a man with a knife.”

“The man who attacked you had no idea how to kill a man with a knife.”

That’s what one of the surgeons who operated on Salman Rushdie told him after he was attacked and nearly killed during a public lecture in 2022.
“I mean, he came very close to killing me,” the author told NPR. “But he didn’t.”

Rushdie’s new memoir, “Knife,” details the attack.

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