by Bharati Mukherjee · Albrecht Knaus · tapa dura · ISBN 9783813519280
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«Die Träne des Grossmoguls» is the historical novel by Bharati Mukherjee, published by Knaus Albrecht in hardcover (316 pages, in German).
The novel follows Hannah Easton, a woman in search of a legendary ruby that once belonged to a Mughal emperor. Her trail leads her from colonial America to seventeenth-century India, where she uncovers secrets about her own identity and confronts the American colonial past. The novel combines historical chronicle with the individual destiny of its protagonist.
German edition published in 1995, translation of «The Holder of the World» (1993). Nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the fiction category in 1994.
For readers of historical fiction and fiction set in India, with an interest in the intersection between colonial America and the Mughal world.
Bharati Mukherjee was an American and Canadian writer and professor emerita in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Born in India, she was the author of a number of novels and short story collections, as well as works of nonfiction that often focused on the experience of Indian immigrants to America.
