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Copyright © 2023 Salman Rushdie

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Victory City / Salman Rushdie.

Names: Rushdie, Salman, author

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 2022023504X | Canadiana (ebook) 20220235058

| ISBN 9781039000551 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781039000568 (EPUB)

Classification: LCC PR6068.U757 V53 2023 | DDC 823/.914—dc23

Victory City is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Cover illustration: Sonali Zohra

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