Victory City: A Novel

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 A major accomplishment by one of our greatest living writers . . . It does not resemble any other novel I could name. Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours 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 her namesake, the goddess Pampa, 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 victory city the wonder of the world. Over the next 250 years, Pampa