BOOK REVIEW
ENCHANTRESS OF FLORENCE -by SALMAN RUSHDIE
The latest novel from the master novelist Salman Rushdie is a lovely account of the woman’s beauty. It tries to convey that how a lady’s beauty could be devastating and resourcefully creative, too. What makes Rushdie so great writer is his art of creating eastern scenes and the multi-dimensional sentences.
His mastery for creating the exotic scenes is in full play in this novel. His capacity to construct multi-layered sentences seems to be at the highest in this book. By applying his skills he has made the India of sixteenth century alive on the pages.
While narrating the full-length love of Akbar and Jodhabai, his wife, he also narrates the Florence of that time. With the exotic narration of both the civilisations, the master writer had put an aromatic plate, full of tastes, before us.
‘Enchantress of Florence’ should be a strong contestant for this year’s Man Booker Prize.
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To RajivMudgal
Yes, this review was written within the limit of 140 words, so I did not find place to put up extra material. I request you to read the following review. You would find it interesting.
http://naval-langa.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/a-tale-of-two-cities-review.htm
Naval Langa
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I was expecting more from your review, but am dissapointed by a mere copy and paste job.
nevertheless thanks for it.
asides: I liked yours "Why are we at Sulekha"
-rajiv
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To Mr. Bhiku Matre
Salman Rushdie is a writer you cannot miss to read.
(You can very well call me 'Navalbhai', I like it much.)
Keep visiting.
Naval Langa
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Navalbhai : Thanks for the review, I have not read this book but have read some other works of Rushdie.
BTW Sorry that I keep calling you Navalbhai but I knew someone by the same name Naval Lakhani, he too was from Ahmedabad so I just can't help it.
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