Four months after he was badly injured when he was stabbed in New York state, British author Salman Rushdie revealed excerpts from his next novel in The New Yorker magazine on Monday.
The magazine, which is beloved by the American cultural elite, published on its website an excerpt entitled ” A Sackful of Seeds ” (“A Sackful of Seeds”) from Salman Rushdie’s fifteenth novel entitled ” Victory City “, which will be published in early February by Penguin. Random House”.
The publishing house says the book tells “the epic story of a woman” in the fourteenth century in a region that is today part of India.
The New Yorker indicated that this first excerpt will be published in the magazine in its issue to be issued next Monday.
On Monday, Salman Rushdie himself confirmed, through his documented account on Twitter, that the prestigious American magazine had published an excerpt from “Victory City.”
This is the first time that Rushdie has posted a tweet on Twitter since August 9, when he also tweeted to announce the release of his novel in February 2023.
Three days later, on August 12, while participating in a conference in Chautauqua, upstate New York, he was seriously injured by a knife attack by a young man who rushed at him as the writer was about to give a speech.
And his agent Andrew Wylie announced in October that the 75-year-old British writer, born in India, was immediately taken to hospital and underwent surgery and treatment in the United States, but he lost his sight in one eye and lost the ability to use one of his hands.
The main suspect, Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old American of Lebanese descent, was arrested immediately after the incident. He pleaded not guilty during preliminary hearings for his trial in August at a court in Mayville, N.Y.
