by Kenizé Mourad · Robert Laffont · tapa dura · ISBN 9782221052181
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«De la part de la princesse morte» is the historical novel by Kenizé Mourad, published by Robert Laffont in hardcover (602 pages, in French).
The narrative reconstructs the life of Selma, an Ottoman princess exiled to Lebanon after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Married to a rajah from northern India, she experiences the splendors of the maharajas before dying in Paris, after giving birth to the author. Mourad combines memories, historical research and imagination to give her mother back her voice.
This work marked Kenizé Mourad's literary debut; published in 1987, it won the Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle in 1988.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and family-memory narratives set at the end of the Ottoman Empire, Lebanon and India.
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.
