Salman Rushdie: 'Watching the pool of my blood spreading, I thought: I'm dying' | Exclusive

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Sir Salman Rushdie has described the “matter of fact” realisation that he was dying after being stabbed in 2022, in a reading from his memoir recorded exclusively for The Telegraph.

The Booker Prize winner recounts how he willed himself to carry on living as he watched a pool of blood “spreading out from my body” after the on-stage attack as he prepared to deliver a lecture in New York state.

Sir Salman’s account of the stabbing and his recovery from it, called Knife: Meditations After An Attempted Murder, is published today.

Sitting in the book-lined office of his agent in New York, Sir Salman is able to hold the book with his injured left hand, which was badly damaged when he was stabbed more than a dozen times by a suspected Islamist fanatic.

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Powerful, very powerful. I'm so grateful that this literary giant of a man was spared for us! Long live Salman Rushdie, he has more to tell us about life.

bearowen
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A fantastic writer & author (and a hardline atheist)... A great man. May he live long and treat us all to more of his thoughts and literature.

theworldaccordingto
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i crashed in a float plane many years ago, ended upside down at the bottom of a lake, my first thought was oh, i never thought i'd die this way, no fear, no panic, just genuine surprise, i lived, obviously.

arleneirvine
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Amazing video and remember everyone to keep going

THEMODPEATER
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Salman is good for mankind. What a set of balls he has!

julianavellaromero
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My dad was in the military, his friend died in his arms and he was athiest, I wonder if his friend was thinking a similar thing about dying alone from the family while somebody is nearby while dying

cgstudiosthebaconbro
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Love and well wishes from Australia. ❤️

bumblebee
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If only every Imam could go through the same experience - the rubbish that they believe in might shrink to insignificance.

lesleywild
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That was a powerful passage.
That message on this channel makes it geometrically more moving: not times two but squared.
Разом ми переможемо

nurseSean
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A very brave man may he have a long life

keith
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Such a great man, freedom of speech is EVERYTHING.

zamiadams
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Dear Sir, dying body hits the soul very very hard (harder than sickness).

PPitambarP
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Eager to read 💐 and to know what are the other books into your bookshelf 🙏

suchitranag
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Islam is a peaceful religion, they say...

thecomprador
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Who out West hasn't wondered at and admired Rushdie?

MitchHawkes
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Such a senseless attack on an amazing human being makes me very sad for humanity.

nigelscott
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As he narrates the story, it becomes like a knife cutting the knife.

tenkun
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I heard of him long ago, and his book The Satanic Versus, but I know little of him. As of 1:29 that seems sincere, sad, and real.

CIS
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Religion d'amour, de tolérance et de paix !

alexandrelougansk
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The fact some videos have comments turned off shows your extreme biased 👍🏻

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