Shared by:minicopper
Salman Rushdie
(May 27, 2008)
Renaissance Florence's artistic zenith and Mughal India's cultural summit鈥攔eached the following century, at Emperor Akbar's court in Sikri鈥攁re the twin beacons of Rushdie's ingenious latest, a dense but sparkling return to form. The connecting link between the two cities and epochs is the magically beautiful hidden princess, Qara K枚z, so gorgeous that her uncovered face makes battle-hardened warriors drop to their knees. Her story underlies the book's circuitous 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 K枚z, 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 K枚z'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 eventually presents an extended portrait of Florence through the eyes of Niccol貌 Machiavelli and Ago Vespucci, cousin of the more famous Amerigo. Rushdie's portrayal of Florence pales in comparison with his depiction of Mughal court society, but it brings Rushdie to his real fascination here: the multitudinous, capillary connections between East and West, a secret history of interchanges that's disguised by standard histories in which West discovers East.Along the novel's roundabout way, Qara K枚z does seem more alive as a sexual obsession in the tales swapped by various men than as her own person. Genial Akbar, however, emerges as the most fascinating character in the book. Chuang Tzu tells of a man who dreams of being a butterfly and, on waking up, wonders whether he is now a butterfly dreaming he is a man. 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. Each culture becomes the dream of the other.
| Announce URL: | http://inferno.demonoid.com:3393/announce |
| This Torrent also has several backup trackers | |
| Tracker: | http://inferno.demonoid.com:3393/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce |
| Tracker: | http://tracker.openbittorrent.com/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce |
| Tracker: | http://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce |
| Info Hash: | c136e5c7759cb55d35d5ca9cb37d6937af8f92d4 |
| Creation Date: | Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:57:43 +0800 |
| This is a Multifile Torrent | |
| Rushdie, Salman - The Enchantress Of Florence.doc 738 KBs | |
| Rushdie, Salman - The Enchantress Of Florence.txt 600.03 KBs | |
| Torrent downloaded from Demonoid.com.txt 47 Bytes | |
| Combined File Size: | 1.31 MBs |
| Piece Size: | 64 KBs |
| Comment: | Updated by fictionbooksbay.com |
| Torrent Encoding: | UTF-8 |
| Seeds: | 6 |
| Peers: | 1 |
| Completed Downloads: | 214 |
| Torrent Download: | Torrent Free Downloads |
| Tips: | Sometimes the torrent health info isn't accurate, so you can download the file and check it out or try the following downloads. |
| Direct Download: | Download Files Now |
| Tips: | You could try out the alternative bittorrent clients. |
| Secured Download: | Start Anonymous Download |
| Ads: |
|
