A review by jaikney
Knife by Salman Rushdie

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective

4.0

It's astounding not just that this book exists, that Rushdie survived, that he would write it, but that it's so funny. It's a refutation of his squalid, vicious, pitiable assassin. It's pithy, holding up the intensity and misery of his near-death against things that are profoundly mundane.

I'd like to give it five stars, but I leave it with the confidence that Rushdie has written even greater books than this. Better keep the powder dry!