by Indu Sundaresan · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782840989714
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«La vingtième épouse» is the historical novel by Indu Sundaresan, published by Michel Lafon (371 pages, in French).
In sixteenth-century Mughal India, Mehrunnisa, daughter of a Persian refugee at the court of the emperor Akbar, meets the crown prince Salim when she is a child and decides that she will be his wife. Amid arranged marriages, intrigues and wars, she makes her way until she becomes Nur Jahan, the twentieth wife of the emperor Jahangir and the only one he loved.
First novel of the Taj Mahal trilogy, French translation by Isabelle St. Martin from the English original The Twentieth Wife, winner of the Washington State Book Award in 2003.
For readers of historical fiction and historical romance interested in Mughal India and in female protagonists who defy conventions.
Indu Sundaresan is an Indian-American author of historical fiction.
