Salman Rushdie - Victory City | ISBN Maschine

In the second-golden-age years that followed the great Change, and the rise of members of the Remonstrance to prominent places in the government of the state, Pampa Kampana was unrecognizable, seen by one and all as a woman in her middle twenties, known only by a small inner circle to be the great founder of the city who was approaching one hundred and ten years of age.