VICTORY CITY

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`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`.Over the next two hundred and fifty years, Pampa Kampana`s life becomes deeply interwoven with Bisnaga`s 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`ELIF SHAFAK, author of The Island of Missing Trees`A total pleasure to read`SUNDAY TIMES`One of the planet`s greatest writers`EVENING STANDARD`A triumph` Enthralling`i NEWSPAPER* A FINANCIAL TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ** A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK