After being brutally stabbed last year, the author returns to the spotlight with 'Victory City,' a new novel arguing for the political power of epic and imaginative storytelling.
in front of Bradford City Hall in Bradford, United Kingdom.The new novel “translates” Pampa’s own verses chronicling the history of Victory City and her mother’s life. This manuscript is discovered some centuries later and retold to us by way of a sometimes wry translator , who pieces the narrative together with sweeping editorial asides.
is soon propelled forward as the seeds sprout a sprawling metropolis; then, one brother is crowned king and marries Pampa. Other nearby empires are aggressively colonised, with the city now a thriving, if sometimes politically fraught, feudal kingdom. While the two brothers vie for control and place, Pampa remains quietly steadfast in her cause, ensuring that women aren’t ever made to face prospects like her mother.
This isn’t the first time Rushdie has wrestled with the antecedents of India’s history, either real or imagined. In, his Booker Prize-winning work, his protagonist’s life story mirrors India’s own, starting with the country’s declaration of independence in 1947. The novel embraced magic realism to heighten the country’s fraught, and often checkered, lurch out from colonial rule.
The novel’s magic realism—from the protagonist’s nose being shaped like a penis to a blind art lover—evokes the disorder many post-colonial countries experienced in the 20th century. Rushdie uses this style to pull readers forcefully into his fictional worlds. His other best-known works in this tradition include. The first sees Rushdie push hard on violence and metaphor, as he wrestles with the political and cultural health of Pakistan.
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