Bet this won’t be on the Ayatollah’s nightstand
By Dave
May 29th, 2008 | Leave a comment
Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie has a new novel out this week, The Enchantress of Florence. Already he is the author of nine previous novels, probably most notably The Satanic Verses, which so enraged the late Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran that he put a bounty on Rushdie.
Says the Random House Web site: “The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world. It is the story of two cities, unknown to each other, at the height of their powers–the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant Akbar the Great wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire, and the treachery of his sons, and the equally sensual city of Florence during the High Renaissance, where Niccolò Machiavelli takes a starring role as he learns, the hard way, about the true brutality of power.
“Vivid, gripping, irreverent, bawdy, profoundly moving, and completely absorbing, The Enchantress of Florence is a dazzling book full of wonders by one of the world’s most important living writers.”
Of course, Random wants you to buy the book.
The Enchantress of Florence, ISBN 978-0-375-50433-4, is retailing for $26.
If you’d like to comply with Random’s wishes or simply learn more about the book, CLICK HERE.
