The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel
By
Rushdie, Salman
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| Price: | $18.00 |
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| Categories: | General Fiction |
| ISBN: | 9781588367587 |
| Publisher: | Random House, Inc. |
| Language: | English |
Summary
A tall, yellow-haired, young European traveler calling himself “Mogor dell’Amore,” the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the Emperor Akbar, lord of the great Mughal empire, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the imperial capital, a tale about a mysterious woman, a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, and her impossible journey to the far-off city of Florence. Continue reading...
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Helpful Customer Reviews
The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel
Lori (Seattle, WA)
Thu Jul 17 2008 02:43
Reading this is like eating a bowl of creamy ice cream. Luscious words that seem to slide down and enervate but tastefully lingers to remind you it's not as light as you first thought. Reading Rushdie is like a spark of recognition with a fellow traveler and I tip my hat in greeting, to say hello! i...more...
Jesse (Phoenix, AZ)
Mon Jan 19 2009 19:01
this is the first book i have read by rushdie and it's good enough to encourage me to read "midnight's children" which i hear is his best book. if anyone has any suggestions as to something besides that, i'm open for some advice. this book was fairly entertaining, but it seemed to get wrap...more...
Nancy (Hobe Sound, FL)
Tue Apr 22 2008 07:55
Rushdie has this particular trait that I've noticed in his writing: he writes entertainingly, but the reader cannot simply sit back and be entertained. This book was no exception.
In one sense, I felt like Shahryar waiting for Scherezade to continue her tale. Every time I'd put the boo...more...
Scott (Sunnyside, NY)
Thu Jul 10 2008 11:19
Filled with lush emptiness. There is more love-at-first-sight in the Enchantress than all other stories put together. Entire cities fall in love at first sight. And the level of subtlety rarely rises above this. After a promising first 80 pages or so, it begins to resemble a cartoon (in a bad way). ...more...
Christa (Shreveport, LA)
Mon Sep 01 2008 17:12
In The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie mixes history with fiction in order to create a tale of adventure, power, and romance. I enjoyed most of the book, but I found it to be a bit disjointed in places. There were so many names in the book that it was hard to keep them all straight at time...more...
Ben (Thunder Bay, ON, Canada)
Sun Jul 13 2008 11:18
As a neophyte of Salman Rushdie's work, I was not fully prepared for The Enchantress of Florence, although I should have been. Rushdie possesses an uncanny ability to manipulate perspective. In his stories, the flow of time is always questionable, and subject to change--if it flows at all. And hi...more...
Elizabeth (Miss Eliza) (Madison, WI)
Sun Jul 20 2008 21:47
While every review seems a need to state the basic plot of the yellow-haired stranger appearing in Akbar's court I will quickly skip over this and go straight to what I thought. I felt that the book was very uneven, there where parts that were just wonderful and deserving a full five stars, in part...more...
jordan (Sacramento, CA)
Fri Nov 14 2008 11:12
On occasion a novel receives harsh treatment from critics not based on the actual work, but rather because it is not what the critics want it to be; this then is the only explanation I can find to explain the harsh, often shrill, reviews received by Rushdie's equisite "The Enchantress of Floren...more...
Jon (Minneapolis, MN)
Wed Feb 11 2009 14:24
What a wonderful book. A vast series of Arabian Nights tales, all linked, but with tantalizingly fluid chronology and meaning, with some rock-hard realistic sections in the Florence of the Medicis, although now that I think of it, those had plenty of enchantment too. The book is divided into a numbe...more...
Bruce (Janesville, WI)
Wed Feb 18 2009 21:05
I have yet to be disappointed by any of Salman Rushdie’s novels, and The Enchantress of Florence proved to be no exception. Rushdie’s language is wonderful, his metaphors sensual and evocative (the novel’s opening sentence is, “In the day’s last light the glowing lake below the palace-cit...more...
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