Book #15788

The Enchantress of Florence

Salman Rushdie
Book #15788 The Enchantress of Florence. Salman Rushdie.

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Edition: Limited/Numbered Edition
Publisher: London: Jonathan Cape/Blackwell Collector's Library, 2008.
ISBN: 0224061631

A most beautiful Numbered edition, limited to 100 copies in unread Fine condition in matching cloth slipcase. SIGNED by author Salman Rushdie directly on the limitation page.

This is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It is also story of two cities at the height of their powers - the hedonistic Mughal capital, ruled by Akbar the Great, and the equally sensual city of Florence during the High Renaissance, where Niccolò Machiavelli takes a starring role as he learns about the true brutality of power (from the book) ; 8vo; Signed by Author.

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Author Bio

Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie was born June 19, 1947, he is an Indian-British novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), led to protests from Muslims in several countries. Faced with a fatwā issued by Ayatollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, which called for him to be killed, he spent nearly a decade largely underground. Rushdie was knighed for services to literature on 16 June 2007.

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