Salman Rushdie

Presents the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. This book brings together two cities that barely know each other - the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the emperor wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire and the treachery of sons, and the equally sensual Florentine world of powerful courtesans.

A Novel

The Enchantress of Florence

Bhavya Sharma

Bhavana

All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.

 Was faith not faith but simple family habit? Maybe there was no true religion but only this eternal handing down. And error could be handed down as casily as virtue. Was faith no more than an error of our ancestors?

 This was also his objection to God, that his existence deprived human beings of the right to form ethical struct by themselves. But magic was all around and would not be denied

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