Fiction:The Last Gift Of The Master Artist by Ben Okri and Victory City by Salman Rushdie
Victory City by Salman Rushdie
The novels of two great writers really belong to this W&P Section.Victory City by Salman Rushdie is our first choice.Because the author of this novel is an advocate of freedom of expression, a former president of PEN International and his piece titled The Empire Writes Back is always a subject of vivacious discussion among literary scholars.In the Victory City, the author offers his readers poignant descriptions of an ancient civilisation,palace politics,wars and gender-equality in four mesmeric chapters.
And it was during a conversation with Christophe Ono-Dit Biot,the New York correspondent of a French News Weekly in August 2023,that he disclosed,When I was 25,I travelled to the south of India and discovered the remnants of the empire of Vijayanara and I wondered, why I am unaware of this civilisation and this discovery inspired my research.However,the message of the freedom of expression activist was at the end of the novel with,words are the only victors.
The Last Gift Of The Master Artists
Ben Okri,the author who adapted L'Etranger by Albert Camus,who won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1987,who became popular with the Famished Road and recently published,The Last Gift of the Master Artists has a special place on this list.Due to the fact that in 2023,Ben Okri was knighted by King Charles III for his services to Literature and in the course of the same year,the Mayor of the city of Pittsburg proclaimed September 19,2023,as the day of Sir Ben Golden Emuobowko Okri in honour of his services as the town crier of injustice.
A dictum displayed in the Last Gift of the Master Artists in the form of village life,Royal intrigues,the prince and the maiden as the main characters,craftmanship and slavery.To make this work a material that readers will like to read at home,in a park,while travelling or in any situation where a good title is needed.
