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Salman Rushdie: Victory City (2023, Random House Publishing Group) 4 stars

A 247-year-old demi-god chronicles the birth and death of Bisnaga, a city she created and …

The writing felt oddly mechanical. The book has a ... gimmick ... that the "real" story was a beautiful epic poem and the narrator is just recounting it. The narrator keeps making excuses for how much worse their own prose is, compared to the "real thing". The excuses wear kind of thin, since this is actually the real text. I was very excited to read this, but ended up disappointed.