Salman Rushdie publishing new book six months after stabbing attack

Arutz Sheva ^ | 7/2/23 | Elad Benari

[Eleutheria5]

Nearly six months after he was stabbed during a lecture in New York, author Salman Rushdie will be publishing a new book, “Victory City”, on Tuesday, Reuters reports.

Rushdie, 75, was blinded in his right eye and his left hand was badly injured by the stabbing.

After the attack, Rushdie was treated at a Pennsylvania hospital, where he was briefly put on a ventilator, his agent said last October.

Rushdie's upcoming 15th novel will be published by Penguin Random House and takes the form of a translation of a mythical epic originally written in Sanskrit about the Vijayanagara Empire that ruled over much of the southern end of the Indian subcontinent in the 14th century, according to Reuters.

Since the attack, Rushdie has struggled to write and has suffered nightmares, he told the New Yorker magazine in an interview published this week. He called the man charged with his attempted murder, Hadi Matar, an idiot in the interview.

"All I've seen is his idiotic interview in the New York Post," said Rushdie, "which only an idiot would do."

In the interview which took place days after the attack, Matar said he didn’t think the author would survive.

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[Eleutheria5]

ROP loses again.

[Conservat1]

Courageous.

[Cronos]

The Vijayanagara empire kept the Muslim sultanates of the Deccan at bay for centuries

[paddles]

His new book is “Buddha, you fat f**k”

[Eleutheria5]

Then he can p!ss off the Hindus, the Zoroastrians, and the Scientologists. But as for the Jooos! and the Christians, been done to death already.

[QBFimi]

And what, pray tell, has happened to the brave Mohammedan who attacked him? (Let me gues: 3 hots and a cot. Weekly visits from a “spiritual counselor”. Nothing’s too good for our fellow monotheists.)/s