A fatwa was issued against him, he was stabbed in the eye, and then turned it into a book. Four years after the assassination attempt - Salman Rushdie speaks

More than three decades after a fatwa was issued against him in Iran, Salman Rushdie survived 15 stab wounds and returned to tell about it in the first person • "Knife" presents a fascinating confrontation with the attempted murder, despite moments of excessive sentimentality