Victory City Summary
Salman Rushdie

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Victory City Overview

In Salman Rushdie's novel Victory City, an unidentified narrator sets out to write an accessible version of the fabled poet Pampa Kampana's long-lost narrative poem. After Pampa Kampana is visited by a goddess who prophesies her future and imbues her with supernatural powers, Pampa plants magical seeds with the help of two cowherds. The seeds grow into the glorious empire of Bisnaga. Throughout her over two centuries of life, Pampa witnesses the rise and fall of the kingdom she helped to birth. Written in a wry and playful tone and distorting conventional notions of form and structure, the novel explores themes including history, loneliness, and truth. 

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