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The Enchantress of Florence (English, Paperback, Rushdie Salman)

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Rushdie Salman

Highlights

Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780099532569, 0099532565
Edition: 01, 2009
Pages: 464

Description

The Enchantress of Florence is the winner of the ‘Best of the Booker’, written by Salman Rushdie.

Summary of the Book

This ninth novel penned by Salman Rushdie contains major themes such as eroticism, sex and humanism, and a debate as opposed to authoritarianism. It could be considered as a work of magic realism. The story is about the visit of a European to the Mughal emperor, Akbar’s court. He claims that he is born of an exiled Indian princess and an Italian from Florence and that he is a long lost relative of the king. Will the Mughal emperor believe him?

About Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British novelist and essayist. He is best known for his Booker Prize winning novel Midnight’s Children. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2007 for his outstanding services to literature. Rushdie was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2008. Some of his other notable works are The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, Shalimar the Clown, The Ground beneath Her Feet, and Fury.

Specifications

Dimensions

Width	28 mm
Height	178 mm
Length	110 mm
Weight	235 gr

Book Details

Imprint	Vintage
Publication Year	2009 January

Contributors

Author Info

Salman Rushdie is the author of ten novels, one collection of short stories, and four works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the Booker of Bookers, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. The Moor's Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995 and the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.

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Renaissance Italy and The Mughal era fused into one by a master story-teller

First the bad news: for all the Salman Rushdie buffs, who have been spoilt by the genius' writing by metaphor, will be disappointed. This master-class is not written metaphorically, but with a profound research of history (the bibliography at the end will take a lot of your time). Now the good news: Metaphoric or not, this is another great one from Rushdie, who shows that he is damn good in telling a story even outside his comfort zone of metaphor.
The story revolves around a "hidden princess...

Dr.Soumya Saha

Certified Buyer, Kolkata

Jun, 2015

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Best book of this genre

This is the best of books written in the genre of magical realism. And this book is magical to begin with...

Shubhang Srivastava

Jan, 2014

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A departure for Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is one of my most beloved and cherished authors, consistently mixing erudition, masterful prose and suave witticisms into his writings. Each one of his characters from Gibreel (The Satanic Verses) to Saleem (Midnight's Children) or even the Three Sisters (Shame) stand as vivid testament to his sheer mastery over the English language.

The Enchantress of Florence, however, is a departure from these. It's the most not-Rushdie, Rushdie work, that you'll read. The dichotomy between...

Raj Anand

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Jan, 2014

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Highly recommended

Great read!

A P Maiti

Certified Buyer, Kolkata

Aug, 2017

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the enchantress of florence

a book written very eloquently and vividly..
once you start reading it really sucks you into the very fictional world this book has created..
there are parts of it where you feel like laughing aloud and also portions of it which really strike the point of general human behaviour.
rushdie had tried to immerse the readers into the fictional world,keeping alive the basic human character of the life

Ranveer singh

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Feb, 2012

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Perfect product!

Good book very useful 👍👍👏👌👏👌

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Oct, 2021

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A book of intrigue, passion & history

Salman Rushdie is one of my favourite authors. I’m so very excited to know that he is working on his memoirs: about the years he spent in hiding from a fatwa issued against him by Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran. The Enchantress of Florence is a book of intrigue. It is about Akbar the Great, Amerigo Vespucci, Jodha, and of course the enchantress of Florence.

Arindam Moulick

Apr, 2013

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