Victory City

In the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. Pampa Kampana is granted powers behind her comprehension by a goddess who tells her she will be instrumental in the rise of a great city called Bisnaga”victory city”the wonder of the world.Over the next two hundred and fifty years, Pampa Kampanas life becomes deeply interwoven with Bisnagas, from its literal sowing out of 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…Brilliantly styled as a translation of an ancient epic, this is a saga of love, adventure, and myth that is in itself a testament to the power of storytelling.