by Kenizé Mourad · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472238336
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«De parte de la princesa muerta» is the historical novel by Kenizé Mourad, published by Tusquets Editores S.A. in paperback (584 pages, in Spanish).
Selma, a seven-year-old Ottoman princess, sees her world collapse with the end of the Empire. Condemned to exile, her journey takes her from occupied Istanbul to interwar Beirut and then to India, where she marries a rajah. Inspired by the life of Kenizé Mourad's mother, the novel weaves memory and history with echoes of One Thousand and One Nights.
It belongs to the Fábula collection (number 21). Originally published in French as «De la part de la princesse morte» (1987), it won the Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle.
Ideal for readers of historical fiction, fictionalized biographies, and stories set between the Middle East and India.
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.
