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She will whisper an empire into existence - but all stories have a way of getting away from their creators . . .\'A total pleasure\'SUNDAY TIMES\'Shows once again why his work will always matter\'NEW YORK TIMES\'Rushdie still has the gift of alchemy\'FINANCIAL TIMESIn 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 a goddess, who 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 as she attempts to make good on the task that the goddess set for her: to give women equal agency in a patriarchal world. But all stories have a way of getting away from their creator, and as years pass, rulers come and go, battles are won and lost, and allegiances shift, Bisnaga is no exception.
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She will whisper an empire into existence - but all stories have a way of getting away from their creators . . .\'A total pleasure\'SUNDAY TIMES\'Shows once again why his work will always matter\'NEW YORK TIMES\'Rushdie still has the gift of alchemy\'FINANCIAL TIMESIn 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 a goddess, who 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 as she attempts to make good on the task that the goddess set for her: to give women equal agency in a patriarchal world. But all stories have a way of getting away from their creator, and as years pass, rulers come and go, battles are won and lost, and allegiances shift, Bisnaga is no exception.
BolHidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of one of India's greatest, nearly forgotten empires. A story waits to be told.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. Aided by miracles and a gift for prophecy, she creates a mighty city; her whispered words galvanize its people to grow and change. Her poetry maps the rise and fall of its empire. And the prophetess herself--beloved, feared, timeless--watches as the world changes across the centuries and her body, frozen in the beauty of youth for decades upon decades, fades along with her city's glory. Half a millennium later, her writing is discovered, deep in the ancient earth.The thirteenth novel from the incomparable Salman Rushdie, Victory City is an epic tale with a message for us all: our power is fleeting, but our stories last forever.
FnacSalman Rushdie (Auteur) - Verschenen op 01/02/2024 bij Jonathan Cape (Penguin Random House)
AmazonPages: 384, Edition: 1 armband, Paperback, RANDOM HOUSE UK
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