Victory City

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783641300517

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Victory City by Salman Rushdie Pdf

Der neue große Roman über Liebe, Macht und die Kraft des Erzählens von Booker-Preisträger Salman Rushdie Südindien im 14. Jahrhundert: Die neunjährige Waise Pampa Kampana wird von einer Göttin auserkoren, ihre menschliche Hülle und ihr Sprachrohr in die Welt zu sein. In ihrem Namen erschafft Pampa aus einer Handvoll Samen eine Stadt: Bisnaga – Victory City, das Wunder der Welt. All ihr Handeln beruht auf der großen Aufgabe, die ihr die Göttin gestellt hat: den Frauen in einer patriarchalen Welt eine gleichberechtigte Rolle zu geben. Aber die Schöpfungsgeschichte Bisnagas nimmt mehr und mehr ihren eigenen Lauf. Während die Jahre vergehen, Herrscher kommen und gehen, Schlachten gewonnen und verloren werden und sich Loyalitäten verschieben, ist das Leben von Pampa Kampana untrennbar mit dieser Stadt verbunden. Von seinem Aufstieg zu einem Weltreich bis zu seinem tragischen Fall. Mit »Victory City« kehrt der große Erzähler Salman Rushdie nach Indien zurück, mit einem modernen epischen Roman über Macht, Liebe und darüber, was es bedeutet, ein Mensch zu sein. Salman Rushdie erhält den Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels 2023 »für seine Unbeugsamkeit, seine Lebensbejahung und dafür, dass er mit seiner Erzählfreude die Welt bereichert.« (Aus der Begründung der Jury)

Author : John Strausbaugh
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781455567461

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Victory City by John Strausbaugh Pdf

From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era. New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen, politicians, heroes, G.I. Joes and Rosie the Riveters, but also of quislings and saboteurs; of Nazi, Fascist, and Communist sympathizers; of war protesters and conscientious objectors; of gangsters and hookers and profiteers; of latchkey kids and bobby-soxers, poets and painters, atomic scientists and atomic spies. While the war launched and leveled nations, spurred economic growth, and saw the rise and fall of global Fascism, New York City would eventually emerge as the new capital of the world. From the Gilded Age to VJ-Day, an array of fascinating New Yorkers rose to fame, from Mayor Fiorello La Guardia to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Langston Hughes to Joe Louis, to Robert Moses and Joe DiMaggio. In Victory City, John Strausbaugh returns to tell the story of New York City's war years with the same richness, depth, and nuance he brought to his previous books, City of Sedition and The Village, providing readers with a groundbreaking new look into the greatest city on earth during the most transformative -- and costliest -- war in human history.

Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-24
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Summary of Salman Rushdie's Victory City by Milkyway Media Pdf

Buy now to get the main key ideas from Salman Rushdie's Victory City Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for a Hindu goddess and a fighter for women’s rights in Victory City (2023), the fifteenth novel by acclaimed writer Salman Rushdie. When her mother joins a mass suicide, nine-year-old Pampa vows to take a different path. Rushdie takes us along on Pampa’s quest to raise a great city where men and women are equal. Spanning nearly 250 years, her story is filled with love and triumph, but also with loss and sorrow as everyone she cares about grows old and dies.

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593243411

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Victory City by Salman Rushdie Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries—from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie is one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year • “Victory City is a triumph—not because it exists, but because it is utterly enchanting.”—The Atlantic A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Chicago Public Library, Polygon, The Globe and Mail, Bookreporter In the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken 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.

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1529920868

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Victory City by Salman Rushdie Pdf

She will whisper an empire into existence - but all stories have a way of getting away from their creators . . . 'A total pleasure' SUNDAY TIMES 'Shows once again why his work will always matter' NEW YORK TIMES 'Rushdie still has the gift of alchemy' FINANCIAL TIMES In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken 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 - literally 'victory city' - the wonder of the world. 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 as years pass, rulers come and go, battles are won and lost, and allegiances shift, Bisnaga is no exception.

Author : Adrian Goldsworthy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781789545739

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The Fort by Adrian Goldsworthy Pdf

From bestselling historian Adrian Goldsworthy, a profoundly authentic, action-packed adventure set on Rome's Danubian frontier. AD 105: DACIA The Dacian kingdom and Rome are at peace, but no one thinks that it will last. Sent to command an isolated fort beyond the Danube, centurion Flavius Ferox can sense that war is coming, but also knows that enemies may be closer to home. Many of the Brigantes under his command are former rebels and convicts, as likely to kill him as obey an order. And then there is Hadrian, the emperor's cousin, and a man with plans of his own... Gritty, gripping and profoundly authentic, The Fort is the first book in a brand new trilogy set in the Roman empire from bestselling historian Adrian Goldsworthy. Reviews for the Vindolanda Trilogy: 'No one knows the Roman army better than Adrian Goldsworthy, and no one writes more convincing Roman fiction' Harry Sidebottom 'An authentic, enjoyable read' The Times 'Gritty and realistic... Goldsworthy's characters are authentically ancient and his descriptions of Roman Briton ring true' Daily Telegraph (Sydney)

Author : Carsten Hjort Lange
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047428466

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Res Publica Constituta by Carsten Hjort Lange Pdf

Focusing on the Triumviral period and the battle of Actium, this book offers a re-evaluation of Augustus’ rise to power and its presentation in propaganda and ideology.

Author : Valerie Stoker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520965461

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Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory by Valerie Stoker Pdf

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How did the patronage activities of India’s Vijayanagara Empire (c. 1346–1565) influence Hindu sectarian identities? Although the empire has been commonly viewed as a Hindu bulwark against Islamic incursion from the north or as a religiously ecumenical state, Valerie Stoker argues that the Vijayanagara court was selective in its patronage of religious institutions. To understand the dynamic interaction between religious and royal institutions in this period, she focuses on the career of the Hindu intellectual and monastic leader Vyasatirtha. An agent of the state and a powerful religious authority, Vyasatirtha played an important role in expanding the empire’s economic and social networks. By examining his polemics against rival sects in the context of his work for the empire, Stoker provides a remarkably nuanced picture of the relationship between religious identity and sociopolitical reality under Vijayanagara rule.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Income tax
ISBN : OSU:32435051018406

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Publication by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1490 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : NYPL:33433016643763

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Internal Revenue Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : UOM:39015062116408

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 by United States. Internal Revenue Service Pdf

Author : Philip Crummy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021553909

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City of Victory by Philip Crummy Pdf

Colchester - Trachtgeschichte - Bevölkerungsgeschichte - Sakralgebäude.

Author : Toby Widdicombe,James M. Morris,Andrea Kross
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538102176

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Historical Dictionary of Utopianism by Toby Widdicombe,James M. Morris,Andrea Kross Pdf

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Utopianism contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on broad conceptual entries; narrower entries about specific works; and narrower entries about specific intentional communities or movements.

Author : American Philosophical Society
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422374270

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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society by American Philosophical Society Pdf

Author : William Michael Murray
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0871697947

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Octavian's Campsite Memorial for the Actian War by William Michael Murray Pdf

Spine title: Octavian's campsite memorial.