The creator Salman Rushdie launched excerpts of a new novel on Monday, 4 months after he was severely injured in a stabbing attack within the state of New York.
The New Yorker journal revealed an excerpt on-line entitled “A Sackful of Seeds” from the fifteenth novel by Rushdie, titled Victory City, which is because of be revealed in early February by Penguin Random House.
The book tells the “epic story” of a lady within the 14th century in what’s now a part of India, the publishing home stated.
The New Yorker stated this excerpt can be revealed in its print version dated Dec 12 and due out on the market on Monday.
Rushdie, a Briton born in India, confirmed on Twitter that the journal has revealed an extract from Victory City.
It was the primary time since Aug 9 that Rushdie posted one thing on Twitter. He did so then to announce that his subsequent book would come out in February 2023.
Three days later, whereas Rushdie was on stage making ready to provide a lecture in Chautauqua, New York, a younger man ran up and stabbed him repeatedly.
The 75-year-old author, who had acquired demise threats after the publication of his The Satanic Verses in 1988, was stabbed a number of instances within the neck and stomach.
Rushdie was airlifted to a close-by hospital for emergency surgical procedure however in the end misplaced his imaginative and prescient in a single eye and the usage of one hand, his agent Andrew Wylie stated in October.
The creator had lived in hiding for years after Iran’s first supreme chief Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered his killing for what he deemed the blasphemous nature of The Satanic Verses.
The suspect within the stabbing, Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old from New Jersey with roots in Lebanon, was arrested instantly after the attack and subsequently pleaded not responsible to the costs.
The attack sparked outrage within the West however was praised by extremists in Muslim nations like Iran and Pakistan.
Rushdie is now a naturalised US citizen and has lived in New York for 20 years.
Iran denied any involvement within the stabbing attack towards Rushdie. – AFP
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