The Feast of Roses
A Novel
The love story of Emperor Jahangir and Mehrunnisa, begun in the critically praised debut novel The Twentieth Wife, continues in Indu Sundaresan's The Feast of Roses. This lush new novel tells the story behind one of the great tributes to romantic love and one of the seven wonders of the world -- the Taj Mahal.Mehrunnisa, better known as Empress Nur Jahan, comes into Jahangir's harem as his twentieth and last wife. Almost from the beginning of her royal life she fits none of the established norms of womanhood in seventeenth-century India.Mehrunnisa is the first woman Jahangir marries for love, at the old age of thirty-four. He loves her so dee…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7434-8196-0
- EAN: 9780743481960
- Produktnummer: 14614407
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'732 KB
- Abbildungen: map in front matter (updated 20th Wife map)
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