VICTORY CITY, by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Cape, $37)
In his first interview since the horrific attack on him last August in New York, Salman Rushdie humorously observed, “I have always thought that my books are more interesting than my life. Unfortunately, the world appears to disagree.”
Rushdie’s 15th novel, , was completed before the attack. Just as well, because he claims everything he, , most recently , and indeed his Booker Prize-winning .