Shame on me! This is the first Salman Rushdie I've read. I was put of by the whole The Satanic Verses affair. There was just so much hype around Salman Rushdie, and so many talking head, banging on about him on the T.V. it soured me to the idea of picking up a book by him.
After reading The Enchantress of Florence, I've seen the error of my ways. This is a real gold mine of a novel, with a big shiny nugget on every page. I love the interplay between India and Florence, Italy. Salman Rushdie weaves the magic, history and culture of Italy and India and creates a magical romance thats spans time and space. After just a few pages you become drawn into the world and history of 'Mogor dell’Amore , a European adventurer you seeks out Emperor Akbar of the Mughal Empire. A stirring and gripping read from start to end. Now it would seem I will have to order some of Salman Rushdie's other works.
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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. 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 Niccolò 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.
Salman Rushdie writes as marriage crumbles
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