by Kenizé Mourad · Edições Asa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789724121581
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«Da Parte da Princesa Morta» is the historical novel by Kenizé Mourad, published by Edições Asa in paperback (592 pages, in Portuguese).
The novel follows Princess Selma, granddaughter of the last Ottoman sultan, from her exile in Lebanon to the India of the rajas and her life in Paris during World War II. Inspired by the real story of Kenizé Mourad's mother, it portrays the fall of an empire and a woman's search for identity between cultures.
Work originally published in French as «De la part de la princesse morte» (1987); Portuguese translation by Maria Bragança. It won the Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle in 1988.
For readers of historical fiction and true stories, with settings such as the Ottoman Empire, colonial India and 20th-century Europe.
Kenizé Hussain de Kotwara, generally known as Kenizé Mourad, is a French journalist and novelist. Until 1983, she was a reporter for the Nouvel Observateur working in the Middle East. She then turned to literature, publishing the international best-seller De la part de la princesse morte in 1987 which told the story of her family. Les jardins de Badalpour, further documenting her family history, followed in 1998.
