PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780099593942
- Categories Asian Literature, BX, BXOS, extraordinary, F LIT, Fiction, WBD
- Author(s) Salman Rushdie
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Pages 464
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 11.0cm x 2.9cm x 17.8cm
- Weight 0.3 kg
product description
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar's grandfather Babar: Qara Koz, 'Lady Black Eyes', a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, who is taken captive first by an Uzbeg warlord, then by the Shah of Persia, and finally becomes the lover of a certain Argalia, a Florentine soldier of fortune, commander of the armies of the Ottoman Sultan. When Argalia returns home with his Mughal mistress the city is mesmerized by her presence, as two worlds are brought together by one woman attempting to comand her own detiny...But is Mogor's story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess? And if he's a liar, must he die?