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The Enchantress of Florence: Rushdie’s New Novel
By flashgordonweb | November 13, 2008
Salman Rushdie is often best known for his novel The Satanic Verses: A Novel.
Akbar the Great, whose realm stretches from Kabul to Bengal, is as mad and melancholy as Hamlet; despite his many wives, he lusts after a queen he dreamed up ”in the way that lonely children dream up imaginary friends.” Then a Florentine magic man calling himself Niccolò Vespucci arrives in Akbar’s court with a yarn about a common relative: a sorceress descended from Genghis Khan, a good witch at the center of a great fable. Qara Koz, a beautiful mysterious princess who bridges both Asian and European worlds with her powers of enchantment and sorcery becomes war booty.
Read more about The Enchantress of Florence and Salman Rushdie here.
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