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04313aam a22006618i 4500 001 36863DD0D37711ED83DD52344BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230405010043 008 221004s2023 nyuabf b 001 0beng 010 $a 2022045237 020 $a 0374106010 020 $a 9780374106010 035 $a (OCoLC)1346988857 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d IFK $d OCO $d UAP $d GO6 $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ita 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-fr--- $a e-fr--- 100 1 $a Sambuy, Livia Manera, $d 1958- $e author. 240 10 $a Il segreto di Amrit Kaur. $l English 245 10 $a In search of Amrit Kaur : $b a lost princess and her vanished world / $c Livia Manera Sambuy ; translated from the Italian by Todd Portnowitz. 246 30 $a Lost princess and her vanished world 250 $a First American edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $c 2023. 300 $a x, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color), map ; $c 22 cm 500 $a "Originally published in 2022 by Feltrinelli, Italy, as Il segreto di Amrit Kaur." 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-314) and index. 505 0 $a Glimpses -- Voices -- Road trip -- Louise -- Sapphires of Kashmir -- Goodbyes. 520 $a "As she builds her own life anew, an Italian writer embarks on an all-consuming search for the true story of the mysterious princess H. H. Amrit Kaur of Mandi"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "On a sweltering day in 2007, having just lost her brother to illness, Livia Manera Sambuy finds herself at a museum in Mumbai, enthralled by a 1924 photograph of a stunningly elegant Indian princess. What she reads in the picture's caption will change her life forever. This alluring Punjabi royal had supposedly sold her jewels in occupied wartime Paris to save Jewish lives, only to be arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp, where she died within a year. Could it be true? And if so, how could such a sensational story have gone unreported? Almost against her will, Manera becomes drawn into the mystery of Amrit Kaur. Delving into the history of the British Raj, its durbars and society balls and jubilees, she shows us the precipitous decline of India's royal caste through the lives of extraordinary figures such as Amrit's father, the larger-than-life Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala; the Jewish banker Albert Kahn; and the Russian explorer Nicholas Roerich--all while pursuing the elusive Amrit Kaur's story. When she meets with the princess's eighty-year-old daughter, Manera's search takes on a new dimension, as she strives to reintroduce an orphan to a mother who disappeared in 1933, leaving behind two children, her raja husband, and a legacy of activism in India's nascent women's civil rights movement." -- inside front jacket flap. 546 $a Text in English, translated from the Italian. 600 00 $a Amrit Kaur, $c Rani of Mandi, $d 1904-1948. 600 10 $a Sambuy, Livia Manera, $d 1958- $x Travel. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Princesses $z India $v Biography. 650 7 $a Kings and rulers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00987694 650 7 $a Manners and customs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01007815 650 7 $a Princesses. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01076505 650 7 $a Travel. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01155558 651 0 $a KapuÌrthala (India : District) $v Biography. 651 0 $a Mandi (India : District) $v Biography. 651 0 $a Paris (France) $v Biography. 651 0 $a India $x Kings and rulers. 651 0 $a India $x Social life and customs $y 20th century. 651 0 $a India $x History $y 20th century. 651 7 $a France $z Paris. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205283 651 7 $a India. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210276 651 7 $a India $z KapuÌrthala (District) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01331045 651 7 $a India $z Mandi (District) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01331554 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Travel writing. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Portnowitz, Todd, $d 1986- $e translator. 941 $a 2 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230502010418.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20230405010254.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=36863DD0D37711ED83DD52344BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search