Victory City

Beschreibung

Im Südindien des 14. Jahrhunderts wird das neunjährige Waisenmädchen Pampa Kampana von einer Göttin als Sprachrohr in die Welt auserkoren. Mit ihren übernatürlichen Fähigkeiten gründet Pampa die Stadt Bisnaga = Victory City. Dort soll Pampa auf Wunsch der Göttin den Frauen in einer patriarchalen Welt eine gleichberechtigte Rolle geben. Wir folgen Pampa und Bisnaga durch die Jahrhunderte, von ihrem Aufstieg zu einem Weltreich bis zu ihrem tragischen Fall. Denn die geniale Schöpfung nimmt ihren ganz eigenen Verlauf… Ein moderner epischer Roman über Macht, Liebe und darüber, was es bedeutet, ein Mensch zu sein.

In fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter. Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for a goddess, who begins to speak out of the girl’s mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampana’s comprehension, the goddess tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a great city called Bisnaga—“victory city”—the wonder of the world. Over the next 250 years, Pampa Kampana’s life becomes deeply interwoven with Bisnaga’s, from its literal sowing from 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. As years pass, rulers come and go, battles are won and lost, and allegiances shift, the very fabric of Bisnaga becomes an ever more complex tapestry—with Pampa Kampana at its center. Brilliantly styled as a translation of an ancient epic, „Victory City“ is a saga of love, adventure, and myth that is in itself a testament to the power of storytelling.