- Fiction, Mogul Empire in fiction, Women in fiction, Women
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…
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- Author
- Salman Rushdie
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 364
- Publisher
- Random House Large Print Publishing, Rowohlt, Edicions Bromera, S.L.
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- German, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780099593942
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Salman Rushdie was born in 1947 in Bombay to a Kashmiri family. He won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism mixed with historical fiction, and a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world.
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