Salman Rushdie releases new novel 'Victory City', six months after knife attack

Six months after being stabbed, British author Salman Rushdie on Tuesday publishes his new novel 'Victory City', an "epic tale" of a 14th-century woman who defies a patriarchal world to rule a city. – Photo: Reuters (right)

Six months after being stabbed, British author Salman Rushdie on Tuesday publishes his new novel Victory City, an "epic tale" of a 14th-century woman who defies a patriarchal world to rule a city.

Written before the US knife attack that nearly took the Indian-born author's life, the novel purports to be a translation of a historical epic originally written in Sanskrit.