Dont buy this.........but THIS!
In the midst of all the confusion over the who, what, where, how, why and when of book choosing at Hayl's, I was left stuck with a few Salman Rushdie books. I was convinced he'd be the choice but then Jackie said he bored her and we were off to another author!
Instead of giving up and returning them to the library, I chose his most recent, "The Enchantress of Florence" and fell head over heels into this story. As Lisa Shea of Elle magazine writes, " a beguiling incandescent tale of travel, treachery, and transformation set in the Renaissance Florence of Machiavelli and the Medicis and in India's Mughal Empire."
Maybe I'm going out on limb here but I cannot believe that critics don't see the similarities between him and Isabelle Allende. I adore her and this story of Rushdie's has the same elements of mysticism, foreign cultures, eroticism and romance.
Just make sure you order The Enchantress of Florence so you don't end up holding a book that has a soft porn cover on the front!
