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Sundaresan, Indu
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Fiction
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2003
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Atria Books
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English
β 429 KB
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The Feast of Roses: novel
β Scribed by Sundaresan, Indu
- Publisher
- Atria Books;Washington square
- Year
- 2003;2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 513 KB
- Edition
- Reprint
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780743481960
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β¦ Synopsis
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 deeply that he eventually transfers his powers of sovereignty to her.
Power and wealth do not come easily to Mehrunnisa -- she has to fight for them. She has a formidable rival in the imperial harem, Empress Jagat Gosini, who has schemed and plotted against Mehrunnisa from early on. Mehrunnisa's problems do not just lie w...
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