La nieta de la Maharaní (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Akhtar, Maha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8492429976 ISBN 13: 9788492429974

Publisher: Roca Editorial, 2009

Synopsis

LA NIETA DE LA MAHARANI recorre tres generaciones y la historia de cuatro mujeres: Anita Delgado, (protagonista de Pasion India) una humilde bailaora de Malaga que con 17 anos se caso con Jagatjit Singh, el Maharaja de Kapurthala; Laila, una fascinante mujer libanesa cuya hija, Zahra, se enamoro de Ajit Singh, el hijo del Maharaja de Kapurthala y Anita Delgado; y la propia autora, Maha Akhtar, que descubrio casi por azar quien fue su verdadero padre y un complicado pasado de su familia a los 41 anos. Una historia que recorre practicamente un siglo de amores secretos, sociedades en permanente cambio y contrastes culturales. / The Maharani's granddaughter runs three generations and the story of four women: Anita Delgado -main character of Passion in India-, a humble dancer of Malaga who was married 17 years with Jagatjit Singh, the Maharajah of Kapurthala; Laila, a fascinating Lebanese woman whose daughter, Zahra, fell in love with Ajit Singh (son of the Maharajah of Kapurthala and Anita Delgado); and the author herself, Maha Akhtar, who discovered her origins when she was 41 years old. This is a story that runs nearly a century of love secret societies in cultural contrasts and constant changes.

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In this stirring, frank account, Jaber, a Lebanese-British foreign correspondent depicts her professional work covering the Gulf War and her personal engagement with an Iraqi family caught tragically in the crossfire. Reporting for London's Sunday Times on the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, Jaber, accompanied by her British photographer husband, Steve Bent, took up the cause of numerous hospitalized children grievously wounded in the bombing and helped start a fund to provide them with better medical attention and supplies. In particular, Jaber learned the extraordinary story of two orphans, the only survivors in a family of seven children who had been engulfed in the firestorm with their parents while fleeing their Baghdad neighborhood in April 2003. Three-year-old Zahra was burned over most of her body and in dire need of sophisticated emergency attention, while her baby sister, Hawra, tossed from a car window, survived unscathed. Jaber, with the help of young American journalist Marla Ruzicka (who eventually died in a car bombing), was able to get Zahra airlifted out, though she later died in an American military hospital. Jaber felt keenly for these orphans, as she had endured years of personal turmoil attempting to get pregnant in her marriage, and she proposed to the girls' grandmother that she adopt them. Jaber demonstrates in this affecting work how she employed her professional passion to aid Iraq's war victims.

About the Author

Maha Akhtar (b. 1966) is a journalist, author, and speechwriter. A contributor to "Departures" magazine, she also writes about wine for several influential restaurateurs in New York City. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Akhtar started her career in the music business as assistant manager for the Cure. Six years later, she moved into public relations for Zagat Survey before entering CBS News, where she worked closely with Dan Rather on the "CBS Evening News". Akhtar wrote two memoirs, "La nieta de la maharani" ("The Granddaughter of the Maharani", 2009) and "La princesa perdida" ("The Lost Princess", 2011), before publishing her first novel, "Miel y almendras" ("Salon Rules") in Spain and Latin America in 2012, followed by "Las huellas en el desierto" ("Footprints in the Desert") in 2014. Akhtar lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Roca Editorial
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 8492429976
• ISBN 13: 9788492429974
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320