In his new memoir, Salman Rushdie describes the moment he glimpsed his would-be murderer closing in on him.
“My eyes follow the running man as he leaps out of the audience and approaches me,” he writes in Knife.
Rushdie, then 75, had just taken the stage at Chautauqua, a resort in upstate New York, when Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old New Jersey man, stabbed him in the stomach, neck, thigh, chest, and eye. This was August 12, 2022. The author spent almost six weeks in two hospitals, first in Erie, Pennsylvania, then in Manhattan, and was finally discharged late one night, by way of a side door—the better to stay out of view, safe.
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