The
enchantress of Florence
a novel
Rushdie, Salman.
creator
text
bibliography
Historical fiction.
nyu
New York
Random House Trade Paperbacks
c2008
2009
Random House Trade Paperback ed.
monographic
eng
355 p. ; 21 cm.
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself "Mogor dell'Amore," the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar's grandfather Babar: Qara Köz, 'Lady Black Eyes', a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, who is taken captive first by an Uzbeg warlord, then by the Shah of Persia, and finally becomes the lover of a certain Argalia, a Florentine soldier of fortune, commander of the armies of the Ottoman Sultan. When Argalia returns home with his Mughal mistress the city is mesmerised by her presence, and much trouble ensues. But is Mogor's story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess? And if he's a liar, must he die?--From publisher description.
Salman Rushdie.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-355).
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Women
Mogul Empire
Fiction
Women
Italy
Florence
Fiction
Mogul Empire
Kings and rulers
Fiction
Mogul Empire
Social conditions
Fiction
Florence (Italy)
Social conditions
Fiction
PR6068.U757 E53 2009
823.914 RUS
9780099421924
2009290381
VLY
090122
20160219153254.0
15593836