Ciudad Victoria / Victory City

Incluido en los libros de ficci鏮 notables del New York Times de 2023

En la India del siglo XIV, despu廥 de una insignificante batalla entre dos reinos olvidados, una ni鎙 de nueve a隳s 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 a隳s, la vida de Bisagna estar?ligada a la de su creadora, que desde su centro velar?por el bienestar de sus ciudadanos con un objetivo claro: dar la misma representaci鏮 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 ser?una excepci鏮. A medida que los a隳s pasen, el tejido social de Bisagna se volver?demasiado complejo, y mientras se suceden gobernantes y alianzas, derrotas y victorias, la ciudad se dirigir?hacia su tr墔ico final.

Salman Rushdie nos brinda una epopeya deslumbrante, llena de amor, mitos y fantas燰, que act 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 pol癃ico.

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.