The New Yorker magazine has published online an excerpt entitled “A Sack of Seed” from Rushdie’s 15th novel, entitled “Victory City,” which will be published in early February by Penguin Random House.
The book tells the “epic story” of a woman in the 14th century in what is now India, the publisher said.
The New Yorker specified that these excerpts would be published in its December 12 issue of the paper and go on sale Monday.
Salman Rushdie, a Briton born in India, confirmed on Twitter that the magazine had published excerpts from “Victory City”.
The first extract from VICTORY CITY is published in@NewYorkertoday. https://t.co/Ve7GVfKGvU
—Salman Rushdie (@SalmanRushdie) December 5, 2022
This is the first time since August 9 that Rushdie has posted something on Twitter. He later did so to announce that his next book would be released in February 2023.
Three days later, as Salman Rushdie was on stage preparing to give a talk in Chautauqua, New York, a young man lunged at him and stabbed him repeatedly.
The 75-year-old writer, who received death threats after the publication of “Satanic Verses” in 1988, was stabbed several times in the neck and stomach. The incident sent shockwaves across the literary world, which condemned it as an attack on freedom of expression.
Mylene Farmer’s friend was flown to a nearby hospital for emergency surgery, but ended up losing an eye and use of a hand, her agent Andrew Wylie said in October.
The writer has been living in hiding for years after Iran’s first supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, ordered his assassination for “Satanic Verses” deemed blasphemous.
Rushdie is now a naturalized American and has lived in New York for 20 years.
Iran has denied involvement in the stabbing attack on the writer.
Melissa Tella
