the enchantress of florence by salman rushdie

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 Niccolo 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.From the Hardcover edition. 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. Many readers will be haunted, at the end of a dense and intricate epic novel, by the image of this man with one foot on the precipice of the modern with his imaginary wife, a city that dies of. 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. 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. Salman Rushdie is the author of nine previous novels, one collection of short stories, four works of non-fiction, and is the co-editor ofThe Vintage Book of Indian Writing.In 1993Midnight’s Childrenwas judged to be the Booker of Bookers, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years.

The enchantress of florence by salman rushdie