Rushdie said that his body was dying and it was taking him with it

Rushdie: "The last thing my right eye would ever see" Salman Rushdie describes what he saw in moments before he was attacked at a literary festival in Chautauqua, New York. Rushdie was attacked in the wake of the attack at a New York literary festival.

Salman Rushdie describes his near-death experience in his new book "Knife. Rushdie: "My body was dying, and it was taking me with it" Rushdie says there was nothing supernatural about it. No feeling of rising out of my body, he says.

Salman Rushdie on his reflection in the mirror: "There is a slash across the top of the forehead" Rushdie writes in his book "Knife." ;. Rushdie. The lips of the man in the. mirror do not move. There is a slashed across the. top of his forehead, he writes.

Rushdie: "They were looking at what I couldn’t see: me" He says his face looked like a sci-fi movie special effect. Rushdie was stabbed 15 times in the face and was slashed open in his new book "Knife.