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Edité par Black Dog & Leventhal, 2018
ISBN 10 : 0316515159ISBN 13 : 9780316515153
Vendeur : Book Trader Cafe, LLC, New Haven, CT, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Hardly any sign of use with No Writing in text. Ships with tracking the same or next business day from New Haven, CT. We fully guarantee to ship the exact same item as listed and work hard to maintain our excellent customer service.
Edité par Black Dog & Leventhal, 2018
ISBN 10 : 0316515159ISBN 13 : 9780316515153
Vendeur : GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, Etats-Unis
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Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Edité par Black Dog & Leventhal, 2018
ISBN 10 : 0316515159ISBN 13 : 9780316515153
Vendeur : GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, Etats-Unis
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Etat : New.
Edité par Black Dog & Leventhal, 2018
ISBN 10 : 0316515159ISBN 13 : 9780316515153
Vendeur : ubucuu, Bucharest, Roumanie
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hardcover. Etat : New.
Edité par Black Dog & Leventhal Pub, 2018
ISBN 10 : 0316515159ISBN 13 : 9780316515153
Vendeur : Revaluation Books, Exeter, Royaume-Uni
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Hardcover. Etat : Brand New. 256 pages. 10.50x8.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.
Edité par Hachette Book Group 2018, NY, 2018
Vendeur : Brattle Book Shop [ABAA, ILAB], Boston, MA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : LikeNew. An inscribed copy of a unique photography collection from famed portraitphotographer Beowulf Sheehan, additionally signed by six featured authorsFirst Edition. 10" x 7.5". Publisher's gray boards with titles in silvergilt on front board and spine, photographic dust jacket. Bottom edgescuffed and worn, with minor scuffs to top edge, very minor shelf wear toDJ edges. Inscribed by Sheehan on title page, "To Bob/With thanks foryour shared love of storytellers/Beowulf." Additionally signed by thefollowing authors on their respective portraits: Zadie Smith, EileenMyles, Stewart O'Nan, Andrew Solomon, Téa Obreht, Edwidge Danticat.
Edité par Random House, New York, 2008
ISBN 10 : 0375504338ISBN 13 : 9780375504334
Vendeur : Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : Very good. Beowulf Sheehan (Author Photograph) (illustrateur). [10], 355, [5] pages. Bibliography. Note. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Signed by the author above his name on the title page. Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie FRSL (born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British American novelist and essayist. His work, combining magical realism with historical fiction, is primarily concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, with much of his fiction being set on the Indian subcontinent. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize. The Satanic Verses (1988), was the subject of a major controversy, provoking protests from Muslims in several countries. Death threats were made against him, including a fatw calling for his assassination issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, on 14 February 1989. The British government put Rushdie under police protection. In 1983, Rushdie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the UK's senior literary organization. In 2007, Queen Elizabeth II knighted him for his services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked him thirteenth on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. The Enchantress of Florence is one of Rushdie's most challenging works that focuses on the past. It tells the story of a European's visit to Akbar's court, and his revelation that he is a lost relative of the Mughal emperor. The novel was praised in The Guardian as a sumptuous mixture of history with fable . 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 Niccolò 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. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: Renaissance Florence's artistic zenith and Mughal India's cultural summitâ"reached the following century, at Emperor Akbar's court in Sikriâ"are the twin beacons of Rushdie's ingenious latest, a sparkling return to form. The connecting link between the two cities and epochs is the magically beautiful 'hidden princess,' Qara Köz, so gorgeous that her uncovered face makes battle-hardened warriors drop to their knees. Her story underlies the book's journey. A mysterious yellow-haired man in a multicolored coat steps off a rented bullock cart and walks into 16th-century Sikri: he speaks excellent Persian, has a stock of conjurer's tricks and claims to be Akbar's uncle. He carries with him a letter from Queen Elizabeth I, which he translates for Akbar with vast incorrectness. But it is the story of Akbar's great-aunt, Qara Köz, that the man (her putative son) has come to the court to tell. The tale dates to the time of Akbar's grandfather, Babar (Qara Köz's brother), and it involves her relationship with the Persian Shah. In the Shah's employ is Janissary general Nino Argalia, an Italian convert to Islam, whose own story takes the narrative to Renaissance Florence. Rushdie presents an extended portrait of Florence through the eyes of Niccolò Machiavelli and Ago Vespucci, cousin of the more famous Amerigo. Rushdie's real fascination here is with the multitudinous, capillary connections between East and West, a secret history of interchanges that's disguised by standard histories in which West "discovers" East. Genial Akbar emerges as the most fascinating character in the book. In Rushdie's version of the West and East, the two cultures take on a similar blended polarity in Akbar as he listens to the tales. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].