Salman Rushdie's 'Victory City' is a triumph, independent of the Chautauqua attack
Rushdie submitted the final edits for his 15th novel before he was stabbed onstage in August 2022. It tells the story of a sorceress and poet who dreams a civilization into existence from magic seeds.
Weeks before Salman Rushdie was attacked on stage at the Chautauqua Festival on Aug. 12, 2022, he finished and submitted the final edits for his novel, Victory City. Inspired by the real-life history of Vijayanagar, a once flourishing medieval Hindu Kingdom in South India, Rushdie set out to re-imagine its collapse as a feminist fable about the lust for power and the power of stories.
has already been hailed a masterpiece by critics in the United States, Britain and India. Given what Rushdie endured last August, there is also air of commemoration for the writer's 15th novel with a to be hosted by Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman.
