Victory City : The new novel from the Booker prize-winning, bestselling author of Midnights Children

Author: Rushdie, Salman

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 9 February 2023 by Vintage Publishing (Jonathan Cape Ltd) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 352 pages
163 x 243 x 35 | 572g

She will whisper an empire into existence but all stories have a way of getting away from their creator Full of adventurea celebration of the power of storytellingGUARDIANIn 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.

Over the next two hundred and fifty years, Pampa Kampanas life becomes deeply interwoven with Bisnagas 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 Bisnaga is no exception.

MesmerisingELIF SHAFAK, author of The Island of Missing TreesA total pleasure to readSUNDAY TIMESOne of the planets greatest writersEVENING STANDARDA triumph Enthrallingi NEWSPAPER* A FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ** A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2023 *