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COUNTER CULTURE | Manufacturing magic: On Salman Rushdie and ‘Victory City’
1 year, 8 months ago

COUNTER CULTURE | Manufacturing magic: On Salman Rushdie and ‘Victory City’

The Hindu  

Published : Apr 06, 2023 11:00 IST - 8 MINS READ Magic realism. With this tale Tokarczuk was given, what she calls a soul, “the world’s greatest tender narrator”. Magic realism is Rushdie’s home ground, what he is most known for, for the depths of possibilities that he yanks out of a world. Highlights Magic realism is Rushdie’s home ground, …

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Book Review: ‘Victory City’ by Salman Rushdie
1 year, 10 months ago

Book Review: ‘Victory City’ by Salman Rushdie

The Hindu  

Published : Feb 15, 2023 19:24 IST As a nine-year old, Pampa Kampana watches her mother walk unwaveringly into a bonfire of women. Victory City By Salman Rushdie Penguin Hamish Hamilton Pages: 352 Price: Rs.699 The remaining 238 years of Pampa Kampana’s life—a period that begins with the defeat of the Kampili kingdom by the armies of the Delhi sultanate, …

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Review: Victory City by Salman Rushdie
1 year, 10 months ago

Review: Victory City by Salman Rushdie

Hindustan Times  

There is an iconic moment in Cervantes’ Don Quixote when the aristocrat Quixote, drunk on the romance of a feudal, medieval past long gone, goes charging at a set of windmills, calling them demons in disguise. While 20th century postmodernism has had champions straddling Europe and Latin America – from Italo Calvino to Gabriel Garcia Marquez – few contemporary writers …

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Salman Rushdie releases new novel, six months after knife attack
1 year, 10 months ago

Salman Rushdie releases new novel, six months after knife attack

Firstpost  

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 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 …

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Salman Rushdie’s Victory City is ‘a restoration of the powers of fiction in these censorious times’
1 year, 10 months ago

Salman Rushdie’s Victory City is ‘a restoration of the powers of fiction in these censorious times’

The Hindu  

Salman Rushdie’s novels have always felt to me like stepping into an Indian Mughal miniature painting where several things are happening at once. “For me the fantastic has been a way of adding dimensions to the real,” he writes, “adding fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh dimensions to the usual three; a way of enriching and intensifying our experience of the …

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Book review | ‘Victory City’ is carried forward by Salman Rushdie’s infectious energy
1 year, 10 months ago

Book review | ‘Victory City’ is carried forward by Salman Rushdie’s infectious energy

The Hindu  

Salman Rushdie’s new novel, Victory City, is a return in more senses than one. Whispered history The rise and fall of Victory City is presided over by the “blind poet, miracle worker and prophetess” Pampa Kampana through her long lifespan of 247 years. Victory City Salman Rushdie Penguin Random House ₹699 The last one is summarily answered early on. Looking …

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