The Enchantress of Florence - Hardcover

Rushdie, Salman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375504338 ISBN 13: 9780375504334

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2008

Synopsis

A tall, yellow-haired, young European traveler calling himself “Mogor dell’Amore,” the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the Emperor Akbar, lord of the great Mughal empire, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the imperial capital, a tale about a mysterious woman, a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, and her impossible journey to the far-off city of Florence.

The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world. It is the story of two cities, unknown to each other, at the height of their powers–the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant Akbar the Great wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire, and the treachery of his sons, and the equally sensual city of Florence during the High Renaissance, where Niccolò Machiavelli takes a starring role as he learns, the hard way, about the true brutality of power.

Vivid, gripping, irreverent, bawdy, profoundly moving, and completely absorbing, The Enchantress of Florence is a dazzling book full of wonders by one of the world’s most important living writers.

About this title

Review:

`Salman Rushdie's best work in years.'

Book Description:

The magnificent novel from the author of the Booker-prize winning novel Midnight's Children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0375504338
• ISBN 13: 9780375504334
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 355