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.
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