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The Enchantress of Florence
by Rushdie, Salman
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0375504338
- ISBN 13
- 9780375504334
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About This Item
Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0375504338 . A clean tightly bound hardcover copy. Unmarked, gently read, cocked spine, showing gentle head and foot wear to the spine and edges of the dust jacket and lightly bumped corners. A really nice copy overall. .
Synopsis
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 of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It is the story of two cities, unknown to each other, at the height of their powers--the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant Akbar the Great wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire, and the treachery of his sons, and the equally sensual city of Florence during the High Renaissance, where Niccolo Machiavelli takes a starring role as he learns, the hard way, about the true brutality of power.Vivid, gripping, irreverent, bawdy, profoundly moving, and completely absorbing, The Enchantress of Florence is a dazzling book full of wonders by one of the world's most important living writers.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Boomer's Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36003
- Title
- The Enchantress of Florence
- Author
- Rushdie, Salman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0375504338
- ISBN 13
- 9780375504334
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- 0375504338
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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