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The Enchantress of Florence
The Enchantress of Florence
Author: Salman Rushdie
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. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess Qara Koz, a great beauty believed to possess pow...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780099421924
ISBN-10: 0099421925
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 452
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Publisher: Vintage Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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As with Midnights Children, this is replete with mysticism, magic, and fantasy: a somewhat modern Arabian Nights.
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I really had to slog through this book. Touted as a woman comes into her power, but I felt the main story was about the man who travels to the court of the King in a distant land. I was pretty lost so often, trying to write down the different names for what appeared to be the same people at different times in the book. I even took to the discussion questions and answers to see if there was more I missed and couldn't understand those!


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