Fable and allegory combine in Victory City, Salman Rushdie’s masterful new novel
Victory City reads like a defiant rebuke to those who work to suppress words and ideas.
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Victory City reads like a defiant rebuke to those who work to suppress words and ideas.
The book's release seems like more than just the appearance of new work from a novelist regularly deemed one of the world's most important living writers.
An online poster told Rowling, "don't worry you are next."
"This is the final victory of the censor: when people cease to be able to imagine a non-censorious society."
The author, who spent years in the 1980s and ’90s in hiding from an Iranian death sentence, was preparing to give a speech when he was assaulted.