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Author:

Rushdie, Salman.

Title:

The enchantress of Florence : a novel / Salman Rushdie.

Edition:

Random House Trade Paperback ed.

Publisher:

Random House Trade Paperbacks,

Copyright Date:

2009, c2008

Description:

355 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Women--Mogul Empire--Fiction.
Women--Florence--Florence--Fiction.
Mogul Empire--Kings and rulers--Fiction.
Mogul Empire--Social conditions--Fiction.
Florence (Italy)--Social conditions--Fiction.
Historical fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-355).

Summary:

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, the youngest sister of Akbar's grandfather Babar: Qara Köz, 'Lady Black Eyes', a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, who is taken captive first by an Uzbeg warlord, then by the Shah of Persia, and finally becomes the lover of a certain Argalia, a Florentine soldier of fortune, commander of the armies of the Ottoman Sultan. When Argalia returns home with his Mughal mistress the city is mesmerized by her presence, and much trouble ensues. But is Mogor's story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess? And if he's a liar, must he die?

ISBN:

0679640517 (pbk.) :
9780679640516 (pbk.) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)298237287

LCCN:

2009290381

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

GKPC851 -- Huxley Public Library (Huxley)

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)

HRPE845 -- Sioux Center Public Library (Sioux Center)