![]() ![]() His emperor is not content with being, but wants to become. ![]() Stories are started, interrupted, retold, and folded inside out. Others disappear into paintings, while in Renaissance Florence, statues come alive and party in the streets.Īs Rushdie plays with space and time, nothing is impossible. ![]() Emperor Akbar the Great’s imaginary queen, who is his idea of perfection, becomes a point-of-view character by a pure act of will. Set in Italy and India in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, The Enchantress of Florence explores the many levels of becoming, fantasy and reality, and how to bring dreams to life. Wearing a multicolored leather coat, a Florentine traveler arrives at the emperor of India’s court armed with magic tricks, a secret, and a tale to tell. ![]()
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