JASPER REES
Knife
By Salman Rushdie
Jonathan Cape £20
Knife is Salman Rushdie’s shortest book.
The novels, those great free-form temples of imagination, balloon beyond 400 pages. The Satanic Verses, with its cameo for the prophet, exceeds 500. This latest book runs to only 224.
For more than 30 years, the fatwa triggered by found its author imagining the approach of an assassin. The last place Rushdie expected to encounter such a bogeyman was in a sleepy hollow in
