"That Overdue Nobel...": Shashi Tharoor Praises Salman Rushdie
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Shashi Tharoor recently finished Salman Rushdie's latest novel, "Victory City", which is based around the medieval city of Hampi.
In his effusive praise for Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, politician and author Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday asserted that the "overdue" Nobel Prize should not be withheld any longer from the "greatest living Indian writer." I've just finished @SalmanRushdie's magnificent & magical “Victory City” — a fabulous recreation of the history of the Vijaynagar Empire through his magical-realist lens, brilliantly written as always, full of the verve and brio of a writer at the height of his powers. The book…
Mr Tharoor recently finished the Mumbai-born author's latest novel, "Victory City", which is based around the medieval city of Hampi, the ruined site in Karnataka of the Vijayanagara empire.
"I've just finished Salman Rushdie's magnificent & magical "Victory City" - a fabulous recreation of the history of the Vijaynagar Empire through his magical-realist lens, brilliantly written as always, full of the verve and brio of a writer at the height of his powers," Mr Tharoor tweeted.
