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28 June 2024 - Adetswil
When I read Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses a couple decades ago I was surprised by how provocative it was not. There were people who really wanted to kill him for that? But talking to my uncle Bob later that year I discovered that it was the book that inspired him to take up mountain climbing and eventually attempt Everest. But I hadn't really thought much about Rushdie or read any of his other books until he was thrust back into the spotlight a couple years ago by the thrust of a knife over a dozen times into him. We are all fortunate the Rushdie's attacker was a poor assasin, because Knife is a deeply introspective story about Rushdie's brush with death and his recovery. The tale is also peppered with literary allusions and his thoughts on many books and their authors. Throughout the book Rushdie refers to his attacker as "the A." and more than adequately proves that his pen is mightier than the other's sword.
