Victory City

Paperback

Published Feb. 1, 2023 by RANDOM HOUSE US.

ISBN:
978-0-593-59721-7
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5 stars (1 review)

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Often hilarious, sometimes horrifying, always fantastic.

5 stars

This is quite possibly my favorite work of Rushdie's, who is already one of my favorite writers. It is a stunningly beautiful story of an unlikely, forward-thinking city born of a demigod, and its ebbs and flows of greatness and terror along with her life. It was so emotionally engaging for me, and I found myself legitimately laughing out loud, furious, tearing up, existentially horrified and deeply uplifted throughout the book.

I almost want to start it over again immediately, but my giant reading list (and the other books I'm theoretically on but haven't progressed in) calls me forward.