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092    |fF|aRUSHDIE 
100 1  Rushdie, Salman,|eauthor. 
245 10 Victory city :|ba novel /|cSalman Rushdie. 
250    First U.S. edition. 
264  1 New York :|bRandom House,|c[2023] 
300    336 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "In the wake of an insignificant 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 the goddess Parvati, 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--
       literally "victory city"--the wonder of the world. Over 
       the next two hundred and fifty years, Pampa Kampana's life
       becomes deeply interwoven with Bisnaga's, from its literal
       sowing out of 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 Parvati 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"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 00 Parvati|c(Hindu deity)|vFiction. 
650  0 Cities and towns|zIndia|vFiction. 
650  0 Goddesses|vFiction. 
651  0 India|vFiction. 
655  7 Novels.|2lcgft