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LEADER: 01985nam a2200325 a 4500
001 2009290381
003 DLC
005 20090122135706.0
008 090122s2009 nyu b 000 1 eng d
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020 $a9780679640516 (pbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn298237287
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050 00 $aPR6068.U757$bE53 2009
082 00 $a823/.914$222
100 1 $aRushdie, Salman.
245 14 $aThe enchantress of Florence :$ba novel /$cSalman Rushdie.
250 $aRandom House Trade Paperback ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House Trade Paperbacks,$cc2008.
300 $a355 p. ;$c21 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [351]-355).
520 $aA 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 mesmerised 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?--From publisher description.
650 0 $aWomen$zMogul Empire$vFiction.
650 0 $aWomen$zItaly$zFlorence$vFiction.
651 0 $aMogul Empire$xKings and rulers$vFiction.
651 0 $aMogul Empire$xSocial conditions$vFiction.
651 0 $aFlorence (Italy)$xSocial conditions$vFiction.
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd