Where do I start? This was mind-boggling! Victory City is the first book I have read by Rushdie and its unusual, layered, fantastical storytelling had me both baffled and enthralled. It's also the first feminist story written by a male that I have read.
When a young orphaned girl, Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for a goddess, she spends the next two hundred and fifty years of her life attempting to make good on the task that the goddess set for her - to give women equal agency in a patriarchal world.
The Guardian describes Victory City as 'A celebration of the power of literature and the endurance of storytelling'. I couldn't agree more.
— Olivia