'Trying to describe a Rushdie novel is like trying to describe a piece of music to someone who has never heard it. Presents Salman Rushdie's 'The Enchantress of Florence'. Hardcover is in very good condition (there is a word, written in ink, on the top of the page after the last page and binding is relaxed at the Title Page). 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. 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 Niccolo Machiavelli takes a starring role as he learns, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. '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.

'Autographed' sticker on front jacket panel.

The enchantress of florence