A New Yorkerben olvasható Salman Rushdie új novellája, ami annyira új, hogy mai. Minden kedves Rushdie-rajongónak jó olvasgatást!
The Shelter of the World
by Salman RushdieAt dawn the haunting sandstone palaces of the new “victory city” of Akbar the Great looked as if they were made of red smoke. Most cities start giving the impression of being eternal almost as soon as they are born, but Sikri would always look like a mirage. As the sun rose to its zenith, the great bludgeon of the day’s heat pounded the flagstones, deafening human ears to all sounds, making the air quiver like a frightened blackbuck, and weakening the border between sanity and delirium, between what was fanciful and what was real.
