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020			_a9781787333444
040			_aKenya National Library Service
082			_a823.914 RUS
100			_aRushdie, Salman, _eauthor.
245			_aVictory city / _cSalman Rushdie.
300			_a342 pages ; _c24 cm.
520			_aIn 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.
650			_aPower (Social sciences) _vFiction.
650			_aHistorical fiction.
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