TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rushdie,Salman
TI  - The enchantress of Florence: a novel 
SN  - 9780099421924
AV  - PR6068.U757 E53 2009
U1  - 823.914 RUS 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House Trade Paperbacks
KW  - Women
KW  - Mogul Empire
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Italy
KW  - Florence
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Florence (Italy)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-355)
N2  - 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
ER  -