by Salman Rushdie · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467235098
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«La encantadora de Florencia» is the historical novel by Salman Rushdie, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (349 pages, in Spanish).
The novel interweaves history and fiction to narrate the formation of the Mongol Empire and the struggles that gave rise to India. In the sixteenth century, a stranger arrives at the court of Akbar the Great, in Fatehpur Sikri, with a secret about the story of a woman of captivating beauty and skilled in enchantment, and her journey to Florence.
Translation by Carlos Milla Soler of the original «The Enchantress of Florence». Published in April 2009. The work was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
For readers of historical fiction and magical realism interested in the Mughal Empire.
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magical realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions that marked the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
