(Paris) The first novel by writer Salman Rushdie, Grimusnot found in French, will be reissued for the literary season, announced Gallimard editions on Monday.
This novel published in 1975, when the author was 28 years old, was translated by JCLattès editions in 1977. It has never been republished since.
It must come out in pocket, at Folio editions, on August 24, with the same translation, by Maud Perrin.
Grimus is a fantastic tale about a man endowed with immortality, Wandering Eagle, who after more than seven centuries seeks to get rid of this gift.
The book had little success, Rushdie only knowing it with his second novel, The Midnight Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize.
By Salman Rushdie appears on September 6 Victory City (Editions Actes Sud, translated by Gérard Meudal), sound 15e novel, published in English in February.
This American-British of Indian origin has lived since 1989 under the threat of a fatwa issued by Iran after the publication of his book satanic verses.
Target in August 2022 by an assassination attempt while giving a conference in Chautauqua, he lost the use of one eye and one hand.