Victory City
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Description
A FINANCIAL TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
"Full of adventure…A celebration of the power of storytelling" – Guardian
"Mesmerising" – Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees
In 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 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 Bisnaga is no exception.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
"Full of adventure…A celebration of the power of storytelling" – Guardian
"Mesmerising" – Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees
In 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 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 Bisnaga is no exception.
