On the book jacket someone defines it as “a naughty fairy tale for grow-ups” and I could not agree more. A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself Mogor dell’Amore, the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real. Not that the characters don’t duel in philosophical considerations, just the opposite, but Rushdie manages to embed these rationalizations/meditations into the narrative without making them forceful or tiring – truly an amazing feat. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. Fatehpur Sikri (India) - Fiction., Florence (Italy) - Fiction., Mogul Empire - History - 16th century - Fiction. Rushdie is undoubtedly an academic, whose writing is full of metaphor and questionings, but in this book he handles those with a master’s approach, mixing adventure and sorcery with questionings about power and love in such a perfect dose. The enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie. The writing is gorgeous, but the magic narrative is what grabbed me and would not let me go. But on "The Enchantress of Florence" he goes a step farther, mixing fables and history, story lines leading into story lines, creating a fantastic and sensual universe somewhere between East and West. So much is said about Rushdie’s magic realism. I had for a while searched for a book that would reproduce the reading experience of “Seven Gothic Tales” by Isak Dinesen, but I never thought that Salman Rushdie would be the author to do it.
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