“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 “
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 “One of Rushdie’s most joyful [books].”
—The Times (U.K.)“[An] awe-inspiring saga.”
—Time “A lavish fairytale [with] an infectious sense of fun.”
—The Guardian “Rushdie has already proven himself of his generation’s most adept literary stars, and his forthcoming epic fantasy novel promises to be one of the best releases of the year.”
—The Week “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. Within these pages, you will find global travelers, rapacious kings, cave dwellers, prophets of doom, and, at its fierce and eloquent heart, a storyteller who reminds us that death may take away a lot of things, but never the power of our words. 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
