The Enchantress of Florence - Brossura

Rushdie, Salman

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9780676977592: The Enchantress of Florence

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ISBN 10: 0676977596 ISBN 13: 9780676977592

Casa editrice: Random House of Canada Ltd, 2009

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The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a mysterious woman, a great beauty believed to possess the powers of enchantment and sorcery, attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world.

It is the story of two cities at the height of their powers–the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor 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 Niccol� Machiavelli takes a starring role as he learns, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. Profoundly moving and completely absorbing, The Enchantress of Florence is a dazzling book full of wonders.

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Recensione:

“It’s an elaborate, complicated read, intensely reflective of the author’s worldliness, intelligence, and partiality to the fantastical. . . . Entertainment of the highest literary order.” —Booklist

“This brilliant, fascinating, generous novel swarms with gorgeous young women both historical and imagined, beautiful queens and irresistible enchantresses . . . Rushdie leaves ranting to the fanatics who fear him. . . . [and] mak[es] us realists inhabit, for the span of our reading, the realm of Imagination, which is controlled by but not limited to observation of fact. . . . It is a wonderful tale, full of follies and enchantments. East meets west with a clash of cymbals and a burst of fireworks.” —Ursula K Le Guin, The Guardian

“What Rushdie achieves so marvellously is to ensure that the evocation of the ephemeral retains the force of the tangible; this is the ‘magical task of metamorphosis’ that he believes to be central to the act of writing. . . . The Enchantress of Florence is, in the best sense of the word, childish fiction for adults: a welcome splash of bright colour; Rushdie, a virtuoso in poster-paint.” —National Post

“Rapturously poetic . . .” —Kirkus Reviews
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L'autore:

Sir SALMAN RUSHDIE is the multi-award winning author of eleven previous novels--Luka and the Fire of Life, Grimus, Midnight's Children (which won the Booker Prize, 1981, and the Best of the Booker Prize, 2008), Shame,The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown and The Enchantress of Florence--and one collection of short stories, East, West. He has also published three works of non-fiction: The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 and Step Across This Line, and coedited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. His memoir, Joseph Anton, published in 2012, became an internationally acclaimed bestseller. It was praised as "the finest memoir...in many a year" (The Washington Post). His books have been translated into over forty languages. He is a former president of American PEN.

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