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Knife : meditations after an attempted murder / Salman Rushdie

By:

Rushdie, Salman

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Random House, 2024Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: 209 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780593730249

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Autobiographies

DDC classification:

92 RUS

Contents:

Part one: The angel of death. Knife -- Eliza -- Hamot -- Rehab -- Part two: The angel of life. Homecoming -- The A. -- Second chance -- Closure?

Summary: During those empty, sleepless nights, I thought a lot about The Knife as an idea. A knife was a tool, and acquired meaning from the use we made of it. Language, too, was a knife. It could cut open the world and reveal its meaning, its inner workings, its secrets, its truths. It could cut through from one reality to another. It could call bullshit, open people's eyes, create beauty. Language was my knife. If I had unexpectedly been caught in an unwanted knife fight, maybe this was the knife I could use to fight back.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	92 RUS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	non fiction	09/10/2025	067047

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Part one: The angel of death. Knife -- Eliza -- Hamot -- Rehab -- Part two: The angel of life. Homecoming -- The A. -- Second chance -- Closure?

During those empty, sleepless nights, I thought a lot about The Knife as an idea. A knife was a tool, and acquired meaning from the use we made of it. Language, too, was a knife. It could cut open the world and reveal its meaning, its inner workings, its secrets, its truths. It could cut through from one reality to another. It could call bullshit, open people's eyes, create beauty. Language was my knife. If I had unexpectedly been caught in an unwanted knife fight, maybe this was the knife I could use to fight back.

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