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03947aim a2200433Ka 4500 001 9BE3AE8AA45911EDA94333522DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230204010026 006 m h 007 cr una--- 007 sz usn nn ed 008 220820s2023 nyu s 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0593677455 020 $a 9780593677452 (sound recording) 040 $a TEFOD $c TEFOD $d SILO 084 $a FIC061000 $a FIC019000 $a FIC061000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Rushdie, Salman. 245 10 $a Victory city $h [electronic resource] : $b A novel. $c Salman Rushdie. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a New York : $b Books on Tape, $c 2023. 300 $a 1 online resource (14 audio files) : $b digital 306 $a 11:48:16 500 $a Unabridged. 511 0 $a Narrator: Sid Sagar. 520 $a 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 “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. 538 $a Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 332054 KB). 650 17 $a Fiction. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Fantasy. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Historical Fiction. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Literature. $2 OverDrive 655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local 700 1 $a Sagar, Sid. 856 40 $u http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=251&titleID=9091474 $z Click to download here. 856 4 $3 Image $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/%7B035E326C-377B-4E72-8568-D7C5772C7D68%7DIMG100.JPG $z Large cover image 856 4 $3 Thumbnail $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/%7B035E326C-377B-4E72-8568-D7C5772C7D68%7DIMG200.JPG $z Thumbnail cover image 856 40 $3 Click for more information $u https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1B0wAAAA2Z/products/035e326c-377b-4e72-8568-d7c5772c7d68 $x 1370 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20230204010130.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9BE3AE8AA45911EDA94333522DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search