Name: Victory City von Salman Rushdie
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Victory City Zusammenfassung

Victory City Salman Rushdie

She will breathe a new empire into life but all worlds can escape their creator

Full of adventure A celebration of the power of storytelling GUARDIAN

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 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.

Mesmerising ELIF SHAFAK, author of The Island of Missing Trees

A total pleasure to read SUNDAY TIMES

One of the planets greatest writers EVENING STANDARD

A triumph Enthralling I

***A FINANCIAL TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR***
***A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK***

Victory City Bewertungen

In its haunting, uncanny, predictive power Victory City shows once again why his work will always matter. * New York Times *
A novel by a man who still, in his eighth decade, derives delight in his talent and all that he can do with it. The book is a total pleasure to read, a bright burst of colour in a grey winter season. * Sunday Times *
A joyfully extravagant alternative Mahabharata... a mashup of myth and fairytale, comedy and melodrama, celebrating women's agency and the enduring power of storytelling. * Guardian, *Summer Reads of 2023* *
Victory City is full of life and colour, and some of Rushdie's key themes: female strength, the importance of storytelling, the danger of censorship. * Sunday Times, *Summer Reads of 2023* *
What of Rushdie's powers? We cannot know if they are god-given, but on the evidence of this profoundly entertaining tale... Rushdie certainly still has the gift of alchemy. * Financial Times *
A playful, magical realist epic, full of adventure and comically clashing registers, and a celebration of the power of storytelling and the endurance of literature. * Guardian *
Rushdies sheer love of fiction is irrepressible. * Daily Telegraph, *Books of the Year* *
One of the richest and most exuberant books Salman Rushdie has written in years... remarkable. * Scotsman, *Summer Reads of 2023* *
Rushdie's relentless creative energy pairs well with his understanding of how history works... It's as if Rushdie has dropped a molecule of divinity into a petri dish containing the other basic stuff of life, and watched a civilization cultivate. * TIME *
Rushdie's lavish, playful 15th novel plants him firmly back on Indian soil, cooking up an alternative Mahabharata and spinning an elaborate founding myth from the bare bones of history. He's enjoying the enterprise and his sense of fun is infectious. * Guardian *

Über Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is the author of fifteen previous novels, including Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), The Satanic Verses, and Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize). A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR013057267

ISBN 13

9781787333451

ISBN 10

1787333450

Titel

Victory City Salman Rushdie

Autor

Salman Rushdie

Zustand

Gebraucht - Wie Neu

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Vintage Publishing

Datum

2023-02-09

Anzahl der Seiten

352

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N/A

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