The Booker Prize winner recounts how he wanted to get on with life as he watched a pool of blood 'pour out of my body' after the attack on stage as he prepared to give a talk in the state of New York.
Sir Salman's account of the stabbing and his recovery, titled Knife: Meditations After An Attempted Murder, is published today.
Sitting in his agent's book-lined office 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 an Islamist fanatic presumed.
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