by Kenizé Mourad · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429758856
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«De part de la princesa morta» is the historical novel by Kenizé Mourad, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (696 pages, in Catalan).
The narrative follows Princess Selma, the author's mother, from her flight from Turkey during World War I to the birth of her daughter in occupied Paris, with Lebanon and India as stages. Kenizé Mourad never got to know her mother and weaves her story into a way of completing her own life.
Catalan translation by Antoni Serra Solà of the French original «De la part de la princesse morte» (1987). It belongs to the Butxaca collection and won the Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle in 1988.
For readers of historical fiction with a family background and settings between Turkey, India and twentieth-century France.
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.
