by Salman Rushdie · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439741046
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«Ciudad Victoria» is the fantasy novel by Salman Rushdie, published by Random House in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
In 14th-century India, Pampa Kampana, a nine-year-old girl, becomes the voice of the goddess Pampa and founds Bisnaga, the «city of victory». Created with magical seeds, the city grows for 250 years while its creator seeks to give women more prominence, but the arrogance of its rulers leads it to ruin.
Original title: Victory City. Translated by Luis Murillo Fort. Published in 2023. Nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for fantasy.
For readers of historical fantasy and magical realism interested in epics about the power of storytelling and the role of women.
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magical realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions that marked the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
