ALSO BY SALMAN RUSHDIE
FICTION
Grimus
Midnight’s Children
Shame
The Satanic Verses
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
East, West
The Moor’s Last Sigh
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Fury
Shalimar the Clown
NONFICTION
The Jaguar Smile
Imaginary Homelands
The Wizard of Oz
Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction, 1992–2002
PLAYS
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
(with Tim Supple and David Tushingham)
Midnight’s Children
(with Tim Supple and Simon Reade)
ANTHOLOGY
This is a work of fiction. A few liberties have been taken with the historical record in the interests of the truth.
Copyright © 2008 by Salman Rushdie
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
SHAMSUR RAHMAN FARUQI: Excerpt from a poem by Mirza Ghalib as translated by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi from the essay entitled “A Stranger in the City: The Poetics of Sabk-I Hindi.” Reprinted by permission of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi. A. S. KLINE: Excerpt from poem 90 from The Canzoniere by Petrarch, translated by A. S. Kline.
Reprinted by permission of A. S. Kline.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Rushdie, Salman.
The enchantress of Florence: a novel / Salman Rushdie.
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1. Women—Mogul Empire—Fiction. 2. Women—Italy—Florence—Fiction. 3. Mogul Empire—Kings and rulers—Fiction. 4. Mogul Empire—Social conditions—Fiction. 5. Florence (Italy)—Social conditions—Fiction. I. Title.
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