by Kenizé Mourad · Muchnik · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476695678
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«De parte de la princesa muerta» is the historical fiction novel by Kenizé Mourad, published by Muchnik in paperback (605 pages, in Spanish).
It all begins in Istanbul in 1918, as the court of the last Ottoman sultan crumbles: seven-year-old Princess Selma witnesses the collapse of her world. After her family's exile to Lebanon, her path crosses India and Paris, where she finds love and also its loss.
The work was originally published in French in 1987 under the title «De la part de la princesse morte» and received the Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle in 1988.
Aimed at readers of historical fiction, with an interest in the end of the Ottoman Empire and stories of exile and personal reconstruction.
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.
