- ethics, fables, politics, New York Times bestseller
Pampa Kampana, a 247-year-old demi-god, chronicles the birth and death of Bisnaga, a city she created and occasionally ruled.
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Contemplative, grave, prestige and open-ended.
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- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Salman Rushdie
- First published
- 2023
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Random House Publishing Group, Random House
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780593243398
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“On the last day of her life, when she was two hundred and forty-seven years old, the blind poet, miracle worker, and prophetess Pampa Kampana completed her immense narrative poem about Bisnaga and buried it in a clay pot sealed with wax in the heart of the ruined Royal Enclosure, as a message to the future.”
Salman Rushdie was born in 1947 in Bombay to a Kashmiri family. He won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism mixed with historical fiction, and a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world.
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