Victory city /
Rushdie, Salman,
Victory city / Salman Rushdie. - 342 pages ; 24 cm.
In fourteenth-century southern India, a young girl named Pampa Kampana becomes the vessel of the goddess Parvati and is tasked with creating the great city of Bisnaga, the “Victory City.” Over the course of 250 years, her life intertwines with the city’s rise and fall as rulers change, wars are fought, and human ambition leads to triumph and ruin. The novel explores power, myth, history, gender, and storytelling in an epic reimagining of the past.
9781787333444
Power (Social sciences)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
823.914 RUS
Victory city / Salman Rushdie. - 342 pages ; 24 cm.
In fourteenth-century southern India, a young girl named Pampa Kampana becomes the vessel of the goddess Parvati and is tasked with creating the great city of Bisnaga, the “Victory City.” Over the course of 250 years, her life intertwines with the city’s rise and fall as rulers change, wars are fought, and human ambition leads to triumph and ruin. The novel explores power, myth, history, gender, and storytelling in an epic reimagining of the past.
9781787333444
Power (Social sciences)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
823.914 RUS