Indu Sundaresan Orden de los libros (cronológico)

Im Glanz des Pfauenthrons: Die große Indiensaga über die Tochter des Kaisers, der das Taj Mahal baute. Prinzessin Jahanara lebt inmitten der Pracht des indischen Hofes. Aber als ihre Mutter stirbt, kann ihr Vater, Mogulkaiser Shah Jahan, diesen Verlust kaum ertragen. Er bürdet Jahanara alle Pflichten auf, die der Hof und das Mogulreich verlangen. Während er das grandiose Grabmal, das Taj Mahal, bauen lässt, muss Jahanara lernen, die Fäden der Macht in der Hand zu behalten. Und ihr eigenes Glück? Der Kaiser will, dass sie nur ihm dient. Darf sie überhaupt hoffen, die Liebe zu finden?

Un colis renfermant des trésors est expédié de l'Inde à Olivia aux Etats-Unis, ce sont quelques souvenirs de sa mère inconnue. Au fil de l'histoire, se dessinent le parcours de Samuel, soldat américain à la recherche de son frère, le destin de Mila, jeune Indienne éprise de liberté, et celui d'un pays tiraillé entre le désir d'indépendance et les soubresauts de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

When Sam Hawthorne, a twenty-five-year-old U.S. Army captain, arrives at the princely state of Rudrakot in May of 1942, it is on a personal quest to find his missing brother. But Sam's mission is soon threatened by the unlikeliest of sources -- he falls hopelessly in love with Mila, daughter of the local political agent. And Mila, unexpectedly attracted to Sam, finds herself torn between loyalty to her family and the man she loves. A sweeping and poignant story of forbidden love, The Splendor of Silence opens twenty-one years later with Olivia, Sam's daughter, receiving a trunk of treasures from India, along with an anonymous letter that finally fills the silences of her childhood. She finally learns the heartrending story of her parents' passionate and enduring love affair -- throwing them in the path of racial prejudice, nationalist intrigue, and the explosive circumstances of a country on the brink of independence from British rule.

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....

Se cría en el entorno del gran harén imperial, y desde niña, cuando lo ve por primera vez, sueña casarse con el príncipe Salim, pero no sabe entonces el alto precio que tanto ella como su familia deberán pagar para ver ese sueño cumplido. Entrelazando la textura de los hechos históricos con la sensual imaginación, Sundaresan relata la epopeya de Mehrunnisa y su lucha por el amor del príncipe Salim. Un camino difícil en el que se verá sometida a duras pruebas -un desgraciado primer matrimonio, la maternidad...-, y a las intrigas de la lucha por el poder. El retrato fascinante de una mujer que desafió las convenciones ocultas tras el velo y una historia evocadora sobre la increíble fuerza del amor.