Salman Rushdie releases excerpts from new novel 4 months after stabbing
After suffering serious injuries in a stabbing attack in the state of New York four months ago, author Salman Rushdie on Monday released excerpts from a brand-new novel.
From Rushdie’s fifteenth novel, “Victory City,” which Penguin Random House plans to release in early February, the New Yorker magazine published an excerpt online under the title “A Sackful of Seeds.”
According to the publishing house, the novel narrates the “epic tale” of a woman who lived in the 14th century in what is now a part of India.
This excerpt, according to The New Yorker, will appear in the print issue with the date December 12 that will go on sale on Monday.
Rushdie, an Indian-born British author, confirmed on Twitter that the magazine has published his work.
Rushdie posted something on Twitter for the first time since August 9th. He then made the announcement that his upcoming book would be released in February 2023.
Three days later, when Rushdie was seated on the platform in Chautauqua, New York, getting ready to deliver a lecture, a young man approached and stabbed him repeatedly.
The 75-year-old author was stabbed multiple times in the neck and belly after receiving death threats following the 1988 release of his book “The Satanic Verses.”
According to his agent Andrew Wylie, Rushdie was taken to a nearby hospital for emergency surgery but ultimately lost the use of one hand and his vision in one eye.
Years after Iran’s first supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had ordered his execution due to “The Satanic Verses'” allegedly blasphemous content, the author had been living in secret.
Salman Rushdie releases excerpts from new novel 4 months after stabbing
Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old New Jersey native with Lebanese ancestry who is the stabbing suspect, was detained right afterwards and later entered a not-guilty plea.
Although the incident incited indignation in the West, extremists in Muslim nations like Iran and Pakistan applauded it. Rushdie has lived in New York for 20 years and is now a naturalised US citizen. Iran denied any role in Rushdie’s stabbing assault.
