by Kenizé Mourad · FRANCE LOISIRS / LAFFONT · tapa dura · ISBN 9782724236583
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«De la part de la princesse morte» is the historical novel by Kenizé Mourad, published by France Loisirs / Laffont in hardback (720 pages, in French).
The novel reconstructs the life of Selma, an Ottoman princess exiled in Lebanon after the fall of the Ottoman Empire and married to a raja from northern India. Her daughter, the author, narrates her story until her death in Paris shortly after giving birth, in a tale of identity, exile and survival.
The work, Kenizé Mourad's first novel, won the Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle in 1988 and was a bestseller in France.
Audience interested in historical fiction, fiction with a real background, and stories of exile and family memory.
Kenizé Hussain de Kotwara, generally known as Kenizé Mourad, is a French journalist and novelist. Until 1983, she was a reporter for the Nouvel Observateur working in the Middle East. She then turned to literature, publishing the international best-seller De la part de la princesse morte in 1987 which told the story of her family. Les jardins de Badalpour, further documenting her family history, followed in 1998.
