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Book Description: Random House 2008., 2008. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 0375504338 From the Publisher The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a mysterious woman, a great beauty believed to possess the powers of enchantment and sorcery, attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It is the story of two cities at the height of their powers–the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor 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 Niccol? Machiavelli takes a starring role as he learns, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. 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. Bloomberg Blending ornate imagery with knowing, saber-swift wit to conjure up cunning escapes, dashing victories and legendary seductions?beyond its magical razzle-dazzle lays a work of steely contemporary relevance. Publishers Weekly Listeners who can make sense out of this clear but unengaging readingshould win an award. Firdous Bamji employs the same technique throughout (pushing out chosen words in each phrase for emphasis), and the sentences begin to sound alike and the listening mind begins to wanders. It's hard to distinguish or care about the many characters, and Bamji doesn't help determine time or place as the book hops around in different eras and locations with abandon. But poor Bamji had a terrible task before him: the muddle of history, mystery, fact, fiction and fairytale in Rushdie's new novel would confound any narrator. A Random House hardcover (Reviews, Mar. 24). (May)Copyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. The Daily Mail An exuberant mix of fantasy and history. John Sutherland - Financial Times For Rushdie, the pen is a magician's wand?If The Enchantress of Florence doesn't win this year's Man Booker I'll curry my proof copy and eat it. India Today Rushdie, like an inspired fabulist, achieves the impossible by turning the tale of two cities into a narrative of perpetual reinvention. An exuberant celebration of storytelling?a story that enchants the reader and enriches the art of the novel. Stephen Abell - The Telegraph [A] splendid farrago.An all-dancing, colourful performance leaping up from the pages. Booklist Entertainment of the highest literary order. (Starred, boxed review) Ursula K Le Guin - The Guardian This brilliant, fascinating, generous novel swarms with gorgeous young women both historical and imagined, beautiful queens and irresistible enchantresses. .[a] sumptuous, impetuous mixture of history with fable. But in the end, of course, it is the hand of the master artist, past all explanation, that gives this book its glamour and power, its humour and shock, its verve, its glory. It is a wonderful tale, full of follies and enchantments. East meets west with a clash of cymbals and a burst of fireworks. We English-speakers have our own Ariosto now, our Tasso, stolen out of India. Aren't we the lucky ones? Elle [A] prodigious fever dream of a book?A beguiling, incandescent tale of travel, treachery, and transformation set in the Renaissance Florence of Machiavelli and the Medicis and in India's Mughal Empire.While Mogor's risky quest and fate are central.Rushdie ushers in a caravan of low, laughable characters in the service of his weighty and witty observations on religion, politics, sex, war, art, philosophy, and science in an East-West world of white mischief and black magic, of enigmatic nightmares and inscrutable dreams. Henry Carrigan - Library Journal Much like Rushdie himself, the mysterious yellow-haired stranger w. Bookseller Inventory # 81066

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Book Description: Random House, 2008. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Signed by Sir Salman Rushdie at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Center at an appearance in July of 2008. A Cappella was the official bookseller. First edition, first printing. As new condition. Signed By Author. Bookseller Inventory # 20080731124681