Tiger Claws - Hardcover

Speed, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312325517 ISBN 13: 9780312325510

Verlag: St Martin's Press, 2007

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Praise for "The Temple Dancer" ""The Temple Dancer" sweeps the reader into an age of passion and danger, romance, chivalry, and high adventure - an age when a bandit could defy an emperor and a dancing girl change the course of history. Set against the rich backdrop of Moghul India, "The Temple Dancer's" combination of history, intrigue, and forbidden love should appeal to anyone who loves M.M. Kaye's "The Far Pavilions" and "Shadow of the Moon" - in fact, it should appeal to anyone who loves a story that will totally intrigue them." --India Edghill, author of "Queenmaker" and "Wisdom's Daughter" ""The Temple Dancer" is an ocean of a story, filled with adventure, passion and heartbreak.It's compulsively readable and everything you want in a novel." --Michael Swanwick, author of "Bones of the Earth" "What an adventure! Two women, utterly different in culture and outlook, travel across seventeenth century India on elephant back and discover, in the face of betrayal, that they have a great deal more in common than they ever suspected. Beautifully researched, this novel has it all: heroes adept with sword and pistol, bold and independent heroines, corrupt rulers, treacherous eunuchs, slippery merchants, and bloodthirsty banditti. The author stirs them all together with a handsome dose of conspiracy, mysticism, and sensuality to create a splendid entertainment in the grand style. --Karleen Koen, author of author of "Through a Glass Darkly" and "Dark Angels"""The Temple Dancer" is a lush, loopy, multicultural epic set in 17th -century India, like the cockeyed marriage of a Bollywood musical and an Errol Flynn/Olivia de Havilland movie, well-researched, playfully written, and highly entertaining." --Chris Bram, author of "Gods and Monsters "and "Lives of the Circus Animals"""The Temple Dancer" is what reading is all about. This book upholds true literature, which is -- the beauty of language. There is a wonderful world here full of enchantment and n

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The jewelled palaces of Agra are the places where the secret Eunuch Brotherhood conspires to overthrow the dissolute Mogul Emperor. But in the mountains of the Deccan, Shivaji re-forges Maya's broken sword, and inspires a ragtag army to rebel against its Muslim masters. Yet "Tiger Claws" stands on its own: as a scintillating tapestry of plot and character; and a sensual reading experience full of high passion and great intelligence.

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• Verlag: St Martin's Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0312325517
• ISBN 13: 9780312325510
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416