Regards Of The Dead Princess: Novel Of A Life
(Kenize Mourad)
This is the story of Selma, born at Ortakoy Palace in Istambul, daughter of a sultana - princess of royal blood - between slaves, wealth and the splendor of the Ottoman court until the sultanate is abolishd by Kemal Ataturk eraising the privileges of the royal family and forcing then to abandone the country, Selma, his brother and mother took refuge in Lebanon where she received a western education and where her adolescent dreams of becoming a movie star are broken when her mother arranged a wedding with Amir, Raja of Badalpur in India where she lived a boring life of harem reclusion between the estate of Badalpur and the palace of Lucknow until she went to France with her loyal eunuc Zeynel to deliver her child in 1939 enjoying for the first time in her life the sensation of freedom and happiness until the nazi invasion that deprived Selma of everything precious to her.
This is an intense novel where the reader travel form different historic periods, WWI, the establishment of the Turkish republic, the french occupation of Lebanon, the last years of the British Empire in India and the nazi occupation of France during WWII and the consequent difference in habits, way of life, the economic, political, social and cultural differences of all places she lived
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