Nearly 25 years after the international best seller “De la part de la Princesse Morte” (over 3 million copies sold in France, translated into 34 languages), Kenizé Mourad offers a new epic and passionate novel inspired by a true story of an exceptional woman during an extraordinary moment in history. Almost an entire century before India became independent from Britain, one woman –Begum Hazrat Mahal- took a stand again the all-powerful Empire.
This is the first book written on this brave woman. Begum Hazrat resisted the British for more than 2 years. There was a lot of tolerance and understanding between different faiths at that time.
Extraordinary development in the field of art, poetry, architecture, and music was observed. Lucknow was a cultural center for more than a century in northern India and was called the city of gold and silver from where the book gets its title.
“Kenizé Mourad has an exceptional sense of historic reconstitution, sustained by her years as a journalist. Moreover, she has the deft talent of a novelist and a vision of the world. Kenizé Mourad inherited the art of conquering hearts from her ancestors.”
