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The Enchantress of Florence
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The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a mysterious woman, a great beauty believed to possess the powers of enchantment and sorcery, attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world.It is the story of two cities at the height of their powers–the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor 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. Profoundly moving and completely absorbing, The Enchantress of Florence is a dazzling book full of wonders.
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| Weight | 1.16451 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 2.413 × 13.716 × 20.32 cm |
| Publication City/Country | Canada |
| ISBN 10 | 0676977596 |
| About The Author | SALMAN RUSHDIE is the author of fourteen novels–including Luka and the Fire of Life; Grimus; Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker); Shame; The Satanic Verses; Haroun and the Sea of Stories; The Moor's Last Sigh; The Ground Beneath Her Feet; Fury; Shalimar the Clown; The Enchantress of Florence; Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights; The Golden House; and Quichotte–and one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published four works of non-fiction–Joseph Anton, The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, and Step Across This Line–and coedited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature. |
NATIONAL BESTSELLERFinalist for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award“Enchantress is consumed with notions of storytelling…. The book itself is constructed as a series of stories within stories, narratives nesting like Russian dolls…. If this were the creation of any other writer, it could be read as a mere story; in Rushdie's case, in today's world where the dialogue is often dominated by extremists, it is a plea for tolerance.” –The Globe and Mail"The novel reads like an ironic, classically flavoured and knowingly naughty fairy tale for grownups. There is sex and violence galore in these pages, but also busy traffic in ideas and philosophical musings.” –Toronto Star“From the very beginning of his new novel The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie plunges us into a world of marvels…. This isn’t primarily a political novel but a work of imagination about the imagination.” –The New York Times |
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