Salman Rushdie: The Enchantress of Florence, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Enchantress of Florence
- Publisher:
- Random House UK Ltd, 01/2009
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780099421924
- Item number:
- 2080366
- Volume:
- 453 Pages
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2009
- Weight:
- 336 g
- Format:
- 195 x 130 mm
- Thickness:
- 35 mm
- Release date:
- 8.1.2009
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
Discover this magnificent magical novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Midnight's Children.
When a young European traveller arrives at Sikri, the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar, the tale he spins brings the whole imperial capital to the brink of obsession. He calls himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, and claims to be the son of a lost princess, whose name and very existence has been erased from the country's history: Qara Köz, or 'Lady Black Eyes'.
Lady Black Eyes is a fabled beauty believed to possess great powers of enchantment and sorcery. After a series of abductions by besotted warlords, she finds herself carried to Machiavellian Florence. In her attempts to command her own destiny in a world ruled by men, Lady Black Eyes brings together the two great cities of sensual Florence and hedonistic Sikri, so far apart and yet so alike, and two worlds become dangerously entwined.
'Vintage Rushdie...reminds us, in case we may have forgotten, that he can tell a story ...better than anyone else in the language' Sunday Telegraph
Biography
Salman Rushdie, geboren 1947 in Bombay, studierte in Cambridge Geschichte. Mit seinem Roman 'Mitternachtskinder' wurde er weltberühmt. Seine Bücher erhielten renommierte internationale Auszeichnungen, u.a. den Booker Prize, und sind in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt. 1996 wurde ihm der Aristeion-Literaturpreis der EU für sein Gesamtwerk zuerkannt. 2008 schlug ihn die Queen zum Ritter. Salman Rushdie erhielt 2014 den Hans Christian Andersen Award und den PEN/Pinter Prize.
