RaveVogueWritten with a sort of elegant simplicity that hits deeper than you realize ... The stories stick with you for a long time, so I’d advise readers to savor each one. Intentionally or not, Lahiri has left a lot of room for us to ruminate, reflect, pause, backtrack. The city of her mind is a very comfortable world to inhabit.
Salman Rushdie
RaveVogueAs a reader whose knowledge of medieval Indian history is sparse—if I can claim it to be existent at all—I was surprised to later discover just how much historical fact was embedded in Rushdie’s narrative ... Victory City is many things: a myth, an epic, a polemic parable, a real-world historical landscape flattened into a fable and embellished by fantasy. It is not, however, subtle in its messaging; it is a firm stand against the right-wing religious fanaticism of the day.
