![]() ![]() 'Vintage Rushdie.reminds us, in case we may have forgotten, that he can tell a story. In her attempts to command her own destiny in a world ruled by men, Lady Black Eyes brings together the two great cities of sensual Florence and hedonistic Sikri, so far apart and yet so alike, and two worlds become dangerously entwined. ![]() After a series of abductions by besotted warlords, she finds herself carried to Machiavellian Florence. Lady Black Eyes is a fabled beauty believed to possess great powers of enchantment and sorcery. 466 pages 24 cm 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. These two worlds, so far apart, turn out to be. He calls himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, and claims to be the son of a lost princess, whose name and very existence has been erased from the country's history: Qara Köz, or 'Lady Black Eyes'. The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a mans world. ![]() When a young European traveller arrives at Sikri, the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar, the tale he spins brings the whole imperial capital to the brink of obsession. Discover this magnificent magical novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Midnight's Children. ![]()
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