by Kenizé Mourad · France Loisirs / Laffont · tapa dura · ISBN 9782298045994
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«Dans la ville d'or et d'argent» is the historical novel by Kenizé Mourad, published by France Loisirs / Laffont in hardcover (482 pages, in French).
In 1856, the British East India Company subdues Lucknow, the «city of gold and silver», and provokes an insurrection. The begum Hazrat Mahal, fourth wife of the king, leads the resistance alongside General Jai Lal and the sepoys; between her and her loyal general a passion arises in the midst of war.
Originally published in 2010, this novel bears the subtitle «Roman» and is set within historical fiction about nineteenth-century India.
For readers of historical fiction: nineteenth-century India, resistance against the East India Company, and love in times of war.
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.
