by Kenizé Mourad · Espasa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467038170
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«De parte de la princesa muerta» is the novel by Kenizé Mourad, published in hardback by Espasa (584 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Princess Selma, granddaughter of the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from her childhood in the court of Istanbul to her family's exile in Lebanon; the journey then takes her through India and Paris in a voyage that will mark her life. Kenizé Mourad, Selma's daughter, reconstructs the story of her mother and her own.
The work was originally published in France in 1987 and received the Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle (1988). This commemorative edition includes a new prologue by the author.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the Ottoman Empire, exile and stories of 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.
