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Victory City is framed as a fictional translation of an epic originally written in Sanskrit. [1] The focaliser and protagonist is Pampa Kampana, partly inspired by the historical, fourteenth-century princess-poet Gangadevi, who is given (or cursed with) a 247-year lifespan.
The novel is set in New York City in the near future. It deals with jinns, and recounts the story of a jinnia princess and her offspring during the "strangenesses".After a great storm, slits between the world of jinns and the world of men are opened and strange phenomena emerge as dark jinnis invade the Earth.
Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie [47] Valis (1981) by Philip K. Dick [48] Sixty Stories (1981) by Donald Barthelme [29] A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) by Haruki Murakami [49] The Name of the Rose (1983) by Umberto Eco [49] Shame (1983) by Salman Rushdie [50] Money (1984) by Martin Amis [51] The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by ...
Writing for The Guardian, Aminatta Forna said: "Rushdie puts his finger on the nationwide identity crisis in this novel of race, reinvention and the different bubbles of US life." [ 3 ] Reviewer Dwight Garner of The New York Times opined: " ' The Golden House' is a big novel, wide but shallow, so wide it has its own meteorology.
So, another brave and dazzling fable from Salman Rushdie, one that meets the test of civic usefulness -- broadly conceived -- as certainly as it fulfills the requirements of true art." [ 2 ] On 5 November 2019 BBC Arts included The Moor's Last Sigh on its list of the 100 most influential novels .
The Enchantress of Florence is the ninth novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 2008. [1] According to Rushdie this is his "most researched book" which required "years and years of reading". [2] The novel was published on 11 April 2008 by Jonathan Cape London, and in the United States by Random House. [3]
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