Victory City : The new novel from the Booker prize-winning, bestselling author of Midnight's Children

She will breathe a new empire into life �_" but all worlds can escape their creator�_݃_~Full of adventure�_�a celebration of the power of storytelling�_T GUARDIANIn the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for a goddess, who tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a great city called Bisnaga, �_~victory city�_T. Over the next two hundred and fifty years, Pampa Kampana�_Ts life becomes deeply interwoven with Bisnaga�_Ts as she 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. �_~Mesmerising�_T ELIF SHAFAK, author of The Island of Missing Trees�_~A total pleasure to read�_T SUNDAY TIMES�_~One of the planet�_Ts greatest writers�_TEVENING STANDARD�_~A triumph�_� Enthralling�_T i NEWSPAPER* A FINANCIAL TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK *