The much-anticipated work tells the tale of young orphan girl Pampa Kampana who is endowed by a goddess with magical powers and founds the city, in modern-day India, of Bisnaga, which translates as Victory City.
LONDON — Six months after being stabbed, British author Salman Rushdie on Tuesday publishes his new novel"Victory City", an"epic tale" of a 14th-century woman who defies a patriarchal world to rule a city.
He was attacked as he was about to speak at a conference in Chautauqua in upstate New York, near Lake Erie, on Aug 12. The attack shocked the West but was welcomed by extremists in Muslim countries such as Iran and Pakistan.
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