Victory City - Salman Rushdie

In the fourteenth century of the Common Era, in the South of what we now call India, nine-year-old Pampa Kampana, orphaned by war, starts hearing the voice of a goddess.\n Inspired, and imbued with powerful magic, she vows to ensure that no more women suffer her beloved mother's unconscionable fate.\n Aided by miracles and a gift for prophecy, she creates a mighty city; her whispered words galvanize its people to grow and change.\n Her poetry maps the rise and fall of its empire.\n And the prophetess herself--beloved, feared, timeless--watches as the world changes across the centuries and her body, frozen in the beauty of youth for decades upon decades, fades along with her city's glory.\n Half a millennium later, her writing is discovered, deep in the ancient earth.\n The thirteenth nove