The creator Salman Rushdie launched excerpts of a brand new novel on Monday, 4 months after he was severely injured in a stabbing assault 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 Metropolis,” which is because of be revealed in early February by Penguin Random Home.
The e 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 will probably be revealed in its print version dated December 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 Metropolis.”
It was the primary time since August 9 that Rushdie posted one thing on Twitter. He did so then to announce that his subsequent e book would come out in February 2023.
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Three days later, whereas Rushdie was on stage getting 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 obtained loss of life threats after the publication of his “The Satanic Verses” in 1988, was stabbed a number of occasions 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 assault and subsequently pleaded not responsible to the fees.
The assault sparked outrage within the West however was praised by extremists in Muslim international locations like Iran and Pakistan.
Rushdie is now a naturalized US citizen and has lived in New York for 20 years.
Iran denied any involvement within the stabbing assault towards Rushdie.