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To put it mildly, Salman Rushdie caused quite a stir a number of years ago with his ‘Satanic Verses’, having the Iranian Ayatollah’s sicking death sentences on him and what not. That particular nastiness appears to have blown over now and Rushdie continues to be a productive author.
I found his Enchantress of Florence to be a very well put together piece of work. He has said somewhere that it took him years to research it, and I don’t doubt that at all – sometimes it feels like a fiction approach to explaining the interweaving play of all the nations of the world during the later part of the sixteenth century. The book begins in the now abandoned city of Fatehpur Sikri (yes that place) and touches base with Persia, Turkey and Italy.
In the end I found it a little bit too much – at times the plot and setting intricacies become so deliberate that you almost notice the writer’s hand in the book, where he is chuckling to himself as he comes up with another clever turn of events.
It’s still worth a read.
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