Salman Rushdie's VICTORY CITY, pitched as a translation of an ancient Indian epic with a woman at its center, a saga of love, adventure, and myth; 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; granted powers beyond her comprehension by a goddess, after whom she is named, she will breathe a fantastical empire into existence, to Andy Ward at Random House, with Clio Seraphim editing (US), and to Jonathan Cape and Knopf Canada, for publication in February 2023, by Andrew Wylie at The Wylie Agency.