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The Feast of Roses

A Novel

By Indu Sundaresan

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| Paperback | 9780743456418

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The love story of Emperor Jahangir and Mehrunnisa, begun in the critically praised debut novel The Twentieth Wife, continues in Indu Sundaresan's lush second novel, The Feast of Roses. Here, Mehrunnisa comes into Jahangir's harem as his twentieth and last wife. This time Jahangir haContinue

The love story of Emperor Jahangir and Mehrunnisa, begun in the critically praised debut novel The Twentieth Wife, continues in Indu Sundaresan's lush second novel, The Feast of Roses. Here, Mehrunnisa comes into Jahangir's harem as his twentieth and last wife. This time Jahangir has married for love, and members of his court are worried that Mehrunnisa could exert control over their futures. Their concerns are well founded.

Mehrunnisa soon becomes the most powerful woman in the Mughal Empire in spite of a formidable rival in the imperial harem who has schemed and plotted against her from the start. She rules from behind the veil, securing her status by forming a junta of sorts with her father, brother, and stepson -- and risking it all, even her daughter, to get what she wants. But she never loses the love of the man who bestows this power upon her....

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  • The Best Reviews: Indu Sundaresan, The Feast of Roses

    "An exotic work of historical fiction" In the seventeenth century, most of India, that is those who would care about the emperor's harem, would expect that Jahangir's twentieth wife of twenty wives would be lower than an Untouchable. However, the Emp ... (read full critics)

    thebestreviews published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • The Feast of Roses

    The Feast of Roses Indu Sundaresan Washington Square Press Paperback 416 pages May 2004 The Feast of Roses is the second of two novels by Indu Sundaresan about the life of Mehrunnisa, the twentieth wife of Emperor Jahangir of India in the seventeenth ... (read full critics)

    curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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  • A good sequel to The Twentieth Wife...more of her descriptive writing and plenty of intrigue at court and the harem!
    Throroughly entertaining but I still like the first one better.

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