Victory City Synopsis
The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries - from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author 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. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for the Goddess, who begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampana's comprehension, the goddess tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a great city called Bisnaga - literally 'victory city' -the wonder of the world.Over the next two hundred and fifty years, Pampa Kampana's life becomes deeply interwoven with Bisnaga's, from its literal sowing out of 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.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780670098460 |
| Publication date: |
10th March 2023 |
| Author: |
Salman Rushdie |
| Publisher: |
Hamish Hamilton an imprint of Penguin Random House India |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
352 pages |
| Primary Genre |
General Fiction
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Salman Rushdie Press Reviews
'Salman Rushdie is a genius and I wish he could read me a story - or a chapter of his book - every night before bed. The scale and scope of his intellect and his imagination is googolplex'. A.M. Homes, author of THE UNFOLDING
'It does not resemble any other novel I could name. A major accomplishment by one of our greatest living writers' Michael Cunningham, author of THE HOURS
'No one, and I mean no one, can bring an entire world to life... [like] Salman Rushdie' Gary Shteyngart, author of OUR COUNTRY FRIENDS
'This is Salman Rushdie at his most virtuosic'. Hari Kunzru, author of THE IMPRESSIONIST
'It will show you the adult world in a whole new light. Only a master storyteller can do that' Jarvis Cocker, author of GOOD POP, BAD POP
About Salman Rushdie
Sir Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) on 19 June 1947. He went to school in Bombay and at Rugby in England, and read History at King's College, Cambridge, where he joined the Cambridge Footlights theatre company. After graduating, he lived with his family who had moved to Pakistan in 1964, and worked briefly in television before returning to England, beginning work as a copywriter for an advertising agency. His first novel, Grimus, was published in 1975.
His second novel, the acclaimed Midnight's Children, was published in 1981. It won the Booker Prize for Fiction, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction), an Arts Council Writers' Award and the English-Speaking Union Award, and in 1993 was judged to have been the 'Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize for Fiction in the award's 25-year history.
Shalimar The Clown, the story of Max Ophuls, his killer and daughter, and a fourth character who links them all, was published in 2005. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Novel Award.
In June 2007 he received a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
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