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Victory city : a novel / Salman Rushdie.
In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for the goddess Parvati, who begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Over the next two hundred and fifty years, Pampa Kampana's life becomes deeply interwoven with the great city of Bisnaga. As years pass, rulers come and go, battles are won and lost, and allegiances shift, the very fabric of Bisnaga becomes an ever more complex tapestry--with Pampa Kampana at its center.
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- ISBN: 9781039000551 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 336 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, ON : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2023.
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| Subject: | Parvati (Hindu deity) > Fiction. Cities and towns > India > Fiction. Goddesses > Fiction. India > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Magic realist fiction. Novels. |
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The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuriesâfrom the transcendent imagination of Booker Prizeâwinning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie
âA major accomplishment by one of our greatest living writers . . . It does not resemble any other novel I could name.ââMichael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of The Hours
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023: TIME, The Toronto Star, The Washington Post, The Guardian, USA Today, The Tampa Bay Times, The Week, CNBC, Business Insider, Kirkus Reviews, and Literary Hub
In the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for a goddess, who begins to speak out of the girlâs mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampanaâs comprehension, the goddess tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a great city called Bisnagaââvictory cityââthe wonder of the world.
Over the next 250 years, Pampa Kampanaâs life becomes deeply interwoven with Bisnagaâs, from its literal sowing from a bag of magic seeds to its tragic ruination in the most human of ways: the hubris of those in power. Whispering Bisnaga and its citizens into existence, Pampa Kampana attempts to make good on the task that the goddess set for her: to give women equal agency in a patriarchal world. But all stories have a way of getting away from their creator, and Bisnaga is no exception. As years pass, rulers come and go, battles are won and lost, and allegiances shift, the very fabric of Bisnaga becomes an ever more complex tapestryâwith Pampa Kampana at its center.
Brilliantly narrated in the style of an ancient epic, Victory City is a saga of love, adventure, and myth that is in itself a testament to the power of storytelling.
