Victory City: A Novel
โ Scribed by Salman Rushdie
- Book ID
- 111238880
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 401 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781039000568
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โฆ Synopsis
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
"A major accomplishment by one of our greatest living writers . . . It does not resemble any other novel I could name."--Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours
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