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   Victory City is framed as a fictional translation of an epic originally written in Sanskrit. The focaliser and protagonist is Pampa Kampana, partly inspired by the historical, fourteenth-century princess-poet Gangadevi, who is given (or cursed with) a 247-year lifespan.

2. www.goodreads.com › book › showVictory City by Salman Rushdie | Goodreads

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   Feb 7, 2023 · In the fourteenth century of the Common Era, in the South of what we now call India, nine-year-old Pampa Kampana, orphaned by war, starts hearing the voice of a goddess. Inspired, and imbued with powerful magic, she vows to ensure that no more women suffer her beloved mother's unconscionable fate.

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   Feb 1, 2023 · VICTORY CITY, by Salman Rushdie. Pampa Kampana’s tale begins when her mother walks into the flames. “The story goes” that with all their husbands dead in battle, the women of a small and ...

5. www.amazon.co.uk › Victory-City-prize-winningVictory City: The new novel from the Booker prize-winning ...

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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 centuries - from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie.

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   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’.

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   • Author: Salman Rushdie

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   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—“victory city”—the wonder of the world.

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   What is 'victory city'?

   • “Victory City” presents itself as a manuscript found in a long-buried clay pot, an “immense narrative poem” in Sanskrit by Pampa Kampana herself: the secret history of an empire, as condensed by a nameless present-day scribe, “who is neither a scholar nor a poet but merely a spinner of yarns.” (Merely.)

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   • Anchored around a little 9 year old girl who lives to 147, there is much to tell. Buy Victory City: The new novel from the Booker prize-winning, bestselling author of Midnight’s Children by Rushdie, Salman from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction.

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   • His new novel is about a kingdom that is founded on pluralism but fails to live up to its ideals. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. VICTORY CITY, by Salman Rushdie Pampa Kampana’s tale begins when her mother walks into the flames.

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   • With wonder and humor, Rushdie spins a decades-long tale about power, philosophy, justice, and exile that boldly confronts the issues modern societies still face.” —Time “ [ Victory City] feels like a triumphant scream against censorship as well as a celebration of language, storytelling, and otherness. . . .

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   • Victory City is a book that privileges the ethical imagination and the unmistakable permanence of storytelling. Beyond war, beyond violence, even beyond life itself, the story, and the storyteller, last.” —Colum McCann “ Victory City is vast and deep, soaring and scintillating. Every page is magical, every page is gorgeous.

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   • Victory City is framed as a fictional translation of an epic originally written in Sanskrit. The focaliser and protagonist is Pampa Kampana, partly inspired by the historical, fourteenth-century princess-poet Gangadevi, who is given (or cursed with) a 247-year lifespan.

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9. www.penguin.co.uk › books › 443946Victory City - Penguin Books UK

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   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’.