The knife

Author's name: Salman Rushdie Publisher: Al-Jamal Publications for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2025 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: Published by Al-Jamal Publications, the novel "The Knife / Reflections after an Attempted Murder" by Salman Rushdie, translated by Khaled Al-Jabali, which sheds light for the first time on the details of the stabbing incident that the author of "Midnight's Children" was subjected to in New York in the summer of 2022 and nearly cost him his life, in the latest manifestations of the threats he has faced since the release of his book "The Satanic Verses." This knife attack, during a literary conference on the shores of the Great Lakes in northern New York, was "a harsh and somewhat brutal reminder" of the fatwa issued by Iran in 1989, according to the famous novelist in October of last year. The attack, carried out by a young American of Lebanese descent sympathetic to the Iranian regime, blinded the British-American writer in one eye, which he now hides, in addition to injuries to his neck and abdomen.