Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen previous novels, including Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, and Quichotte, all of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; a collection of stories, East, West; a memoir, Joseph Anton; a work of reportage, The Jaguar Smile; and three collections of essays, most recently Languages of Truth. His many awards include the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, which he won twice; the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award; the National Arts Award; the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger; the European Union’s Aristeion Prize for Literature; the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature; and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. He is a former president of PEN America and the recipient of the PEN Centenary Courage Award. His books have been translated into over forty languages. In 2023, he was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year.
“An astounding work of historical fiction and magical realism . . .
With wonder and humor, Rushdie spins a decades-long tale about
power, philosophy, justice, and exile that boldly confronts the
issues modern societies still face.”—TIME Magazine
“[Victory City] feels like a triumphant scream against censorship
as well as a celebration of language, storytelling, and otherness.
. . . Literature can offer guides to a better future, even when
it’s fiction about the past, and Victory City is precisely
that.”—Boston Globe
“Rushdie’s return to magic, myth, and India’s ancient stories is
dazzling . . . Whether it’s an allegory for present-day India or a
feminist retelling of a pre-colonial empire (or both!), Victory
City nevertheless celebrates a singular story of female
resilience.”—Esquire
“Infused with magic, wonder, sorrow and humor, Victory City
explores all of the capital-B big questions of life, like what
makes us human.”—CNN
“[Rushdie] has brought forth a work of cheerful
fabulism that puts far more emphasis on ‘magic’ than
‘realism’—a warm space in which we might imagine a better world
than our own.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Rushdie’s 15th novel is a compulsively readable take on
the plain fact that human life has a tragic arc—consider how it
ends for all of us—and a richly comedic texture along the
was…. An elegy on a writer’s art and purpose, Victory City is
a great victory for Rushdie.”—Toronto Star
“On the evidence of this profoundly entertaining tale . . . Rushdie
certainly still has the gift of alchemy. . . . All along, [he] has
been transforming this dark lead of historical reality into the
brilliant gold of great stories.”—Financial Times
“In its haunting, uncanny, predictive power Victory City shows once
again why [Salman Rushdie’s] work will always matter.”—The New York
Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
“Victory City is a triumph—not because it exists, but because it is
utterly enchanting. . . . When you think about it, Rushdie’s novels
are a miracle.”—The Atlantic
“Victory City feels like a return to form, recalling the kind of
reality-bending, effortlessly erudite world-building that first
defined [Rushdie’s] style—and may be key to his literary
legacy.”—Los Angeles Times
“A lavish fairytale [with] an infectious sense of fun.”—The
Guardian
“A grand historical fantasy . . . the latest masterpiece from a
writer who has spent the last fifty years spinning tales that have
breathed magic into history.”—Ron Charles, CBS News Sunday
Morning
“‘Victory City’ is a triumph [that] invites readers to
reconvene with Rushdie, the humorist, artist and spinner of grand
yarns.”—NPR
“Victory City is many things: a myth, an epic, a polemic parable, a
real-world historical landscape flattened into a fable and
embellished by fantasy. . . . Salman Rushdie deftly weaves
historical fact with mythological fiction.”—Vogue
“[The] book’s joy in fictions that ‘could be as powerful as
histories’ testifies to a lifetime of free-spirited invention. . .
. In this novel [Salman Rushdie] shows his faith in
the liberating power of art.”—The Economist
“Salman Rushdie has created a radiant myth about mythmaking.
Victory City is a book that privileges the ethical imagination and
the unmistakable permanence of storytelling. Beyond war, beyond
violence, even beyond life itself, the story, and the storyteller,
last.”—Colum McCann
“Victory City is vast and deep, soaring and scintillating. Every
page is magical, every page is gorgeous. In the way of a
significant work of art, it does not resemble any other novel I
could name . . . A major accomplishment by one of our greatest
living writers.”—Michael Cunningham
“The scale and scope of his intellect and his imagination is
googolplex, as big as infinity and then some. In Victory City, he
spins an epic tale that brings us back to the key questions of
what it is to be human, to be authentic, to love and to
grieve.”—A. M. Homes
“No one, and I mean no one, can bring an entire world to life with
the authority, wisdom, humor, and panache of Salman Rushdie.
In the pantheon of his novels, Victory City stands out as book of
particular imaginative achievement. It defies category, but it
invites pleasure.”—Gary Shteyngart
“Victory City is a capacious and sweeping telling in which writing
about the past is a way of also staring dead on at the present and
historicizing human nature. In the wit and poetry of his
prose, Rushdie shows us not only the world we’ve made, but—more
importantly—the one we can remake.”—Natasha Trethewey
“This is Salman Rushdie at his most virtuosic, a wondrous tale of
medieval India which is also, as ever, a fable about the
triumph of life—in all its joyous, messy excess—over the forces of
fanaticism and darkness.”—Hari Kunzru
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