Book description
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor
dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real
Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to
obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child
of a lost Mughal princess: Qara Köz, 'Lady Black Eyes', a great
beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, who
becomes the lover of a certain Argalia, a Florentine soldier of
fortune. When Argalia returns home with his Mughal mistress the city
is mesmerized by her presence, as two worlds are brought together by
one woman attempting to command her own destiny...
But is Mogor's story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess?
Salman Rushdie is the author of ten novels, one collection of short
stories, three works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of
The Vintage
Book of Indian Writing
. In 1993
Midnight's Children
was judged to be the Best of the Booker, the best novel to have won the
Booker Prize in its forty year history.
The Moor's Last Sigh
won the Whitbread Prize in 1995 and the European Union's Aristeion
Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
