![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Romance, yes, that too: the main characters all mediate on the nature of love at one point or another. I might even characterize this story as a fable, for it carries that particular brand of enchantment about it. If you were expecting a linear narrative that reads like a movie novelization, then you a) have not read Salman Rushdie before and b) will not get that. The boundaries between these two stories-the latter of which takes place in the first one's past-are flimsy, permeable. In this novel, Rushdie runs two stories parallel to each other: that of Emperor Akbar's court, the emperor's life and philosophy and the story of a man's heritage, of a lost Mughal princess who travels from Asia to Florence to the New World, then beyond. And his characters are larger-than-life, capricious archetypes that embody the virtues and flaws of humanity. In his stories, the flow of time is always questionable, and subject to change-if it flows at all. Rushdie possesses an uncanny ability to manipulate perspective. As a neophyte of Salman Rushdie's work, I was not fully prepared for The Enchantress of Florence, although I should have been. ![]()
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