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Salman Rushdie

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Victory City

by Salman Rushdie
Victory City
Victory City

A goddess, a girl, a city’s destiny

Nine-year-old Pampa Kampana becomes a goddess’s vessel, charged with shaping the rise of Bisnaga over 250 years. Her quest for women’s agency unfolds as the city’s story gradually escapes the control of its creator.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Victory City

by Salman Rushdie
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ISBN: 9781529920864
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Related Collections: Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Mythology, Feminism, Asian Literature, Historical Fantasy

Description

In the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for a goddess, who tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a great city called Bisnaga, ‘victory city’. Over the next two hundred and fifty years, Pampa Kampana’s life becomes deeply interwoven with Bisnaga’s as she 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.
 

A goddess, a girl, a city’s destiny

Nine-year-old Pampa Kampana becomes a goddess’s vessel, charged with shaping the rise of Bisnaga over 250 years. Her quest for women’s agency unfolds as the city’s story gradually escapes the control of its creator.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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