Four months after being seriously injured in a stabbing in the northern United States, the American-British writer Salman Rushdie unveiled Monday in The New Yorker magazine an excerpt from his next novel.
The prestigious newspaper of American cultural elites has posted on its site an extract entitled “A Sackful of Seeds” from the 15th novel by Salman Rushie, “Victory City”, to be published in early February by the publisher Penguin Random House.
The extract can be read by entering his email address.
The book tells the "epic tale of a woman" in the 14th century in what is now part of India, according to the publisher.
The first excerpt was also published in the magazine dated December 12, released on newsstands this Monday.
Salman Rushdie himself, on his certified Twitter account, confirmed the publication of these few lines "Victory City".
This is the first time since August 9 that the author has spoken on Twitter.
The first extract from VICTORY CITY is published in @NewYorker today.
https://t.co/Ve7GVfKGvU
— Salman Rushdie (@SalmanRushdie) December 5, 2022
He had done it four months ago to announce the release of his novel in February 2023.
Here's the US cover!
#VictoryCity post date: February 9th, 2023. @randomhouse @PRHDigital @penguinrandom pic.twitter.com/t4tKQ8Bjdw
— Salman Rushdie (@SalmanRushdie) August 9, 2022
Three days later, on August 12, at a conference in Chautauqua, upstate New York, the world-famous author of his "Satanic Verses," published over thirty years ago , had been seriously injured in a knife attack.
A young man pounced on him as he was about to speak.
The 75-year-old Indian-born British writer was immediately hospitalized and operated on.
Hit multiple times, he lost the sight of one eye and the use of one hand, his agent Andrew Wylie announced at the end of October.
He did not specify if Salman Rushdie was still hospitalized.
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"Salman Rushdie ran for his life", say witnesses of the attack
The main suspect in the assault, Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old American of Lebanese descent, was arrested immediately after the incident and pleaded not guilty during preliminary hearings for his trial in a court in Mayville, in the northwest. of New York State.
The attack shocked the West but was hailed by extremists in Muslim countries such as Iran and Pakistan.
The writer, naturalized American and who has lived in New York for 20 years, has been prosecuted since 1989 by a fatwa from the Iranian Supreme Guide condemning him to death.
Iran had officially denied any role in the attack, a spokesman for power in Tehran assuring that "only Salman Rushdie and his supporters deserve to be blamed and even condemned".
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