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Salman Rushdie’s Victory City review: a storyteller at the height of his powers

Victory City is an epic chronicle of the rise and fall of Vijayanagar (the capital city of the historic southern Indian Vijayanagara empire), which acquires the name “Bisnaga” through ill-fated attempts at pronunciation by a Portuguese traveller.

The Conversation · Feb 15, 2023

Salman Rushdie triumphs with ‘Victory City’

"Victory City" by Salman Rushdie; Random House (352 pages, $30)

Tribune News Service · Feb 8, 2023

Victory City by Salman Rushdie review: Bravo to this funny, cynical, bewildering mix of satire and fantasy

The author’s first novel since he was attacked last year celebrates the merits of pluralism, and the dreariness of fanaticism

Evening Standard · Feb 3, 2023