by Kenize Mourad · El Aleph Editores, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476694404
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«De parte de la princesa muerta» is the historical and biographical novel by Kenizé Mourad, published by El Aleph Editores in paperback (582 pages, in Spanish).
Istanbul, 1918: seven-year-old Princess Selma sees her world collapse with the end of the Ottoman Empire. Exiled with her family to Lebanon, her eventful life will take her to India and Paris, where she will find a great love. Kenizé Mourad reconstructs the story of her mother and of a vanished dynasty.
Originally published in French in 1987 as «De la part de la princesse morte» and winner of the Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle in 1988. It belongs to the Modernos y Clásicos collection from El Aleph.
For readers of historical and biographical fiction interested in the end of the Ottoman Empire, exile and love stories.
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.
