Publisher's Synopsis
&«Ciudad Victoria es colosal y profunda, elevada y resplandeciente. Cada página es mágica, cada página es espléndida. Tratándose de una obra de arte significativa, no se parece a ninguna otra novela que pueda nombrar [...]. Un logro mayúsculo de uno de nuestros mejores autores vivos». -Michael Cunningham.
Incluido en los libros de ficción notables del New York Times de 2023
En la India del siglo XIV, después de una insignificante batalla entre dos reinos olvidados, una niña de nueve años llamada Pampa Kampana cambia el curso de la historia. La voz antigua de la diosa Pampa sale por su boca infantil y le otorga poderes extraordinarios para crear una gran ciudad: Bisnaga, la &«ciudad de la victoria». Durante los siguientes doscientos cincuenta años, la vida de Bisagna estará ligada a la de su creadora, que desde su centro velará por el bienestar de sus ciudadanos con un objetivo claro: dar la misma representación a las mujeres que a los hombres. Pero todas las historias encuentran la forma de alejarse de lo que imaginaron sus creadores, y la de Bisnaga no será una excepción. A medida que los años pasen, el tejido social de Bisagna se volverá demasiado complejo, y mientras se suceden gobernantes y alianzas, derrotas y victorias, la ciudad se dirigirá hacia su trágico final.
Salman Rushdie nos brinda una epopeya deslumbrante, llena de amor, mitos y fantasìa, que actúa como espejo de cualquier sociedad inestable y como testimonio fiel del poder que tienen las historias para narrar los vaivenes de la humanidad y del compromiso polìtico.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries-from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie
Listed as one of The New York Times' Notable Fiction Books of 2023
"A major accomplishment by one of our greatest living writers . . . It does not resemble any other novel I could name."-Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023: Time, The Washington Post, The Guardian, USA Today, The Tampa Bay Times, The Week, CNBC, Business Insider, Kirkus Reviews
In the wake of an unimportant 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 begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampana's comprehension, the goddess tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a great city called Bisnaga-"victory city"-the wonder of the world.
Over the next 250 years, Pampa Kampana's life becomes deeply interwoven with Bisnaga's, from its literal sowing from a bag of magic seeds to its tragic ruination in the most human of ways: the hubris of those in power. Whispering Bisnaga and its citizens into existence, Pampa Kampana 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. As years pass, rulers come and go, battles are won and lost, and allegiances shift, the very fabric of Bisnaga becomes an ever more complex tapestry-with Pampa Kampana at its center.
Brilliantly styled as a translation of an ancient epic, Victory City is a saga of love, adventure, and myth that is in itself a testament to the power of storytelling.
