- Paperback: 452 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books; 2 edition (1 Jun 1993)
- ISBN-10: 0140236309
- ISBN-13: 978-0140236309
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Format:Paperback
A fabulous story that looks a bit like history. The background is historical, but the background is rather remote from the narative. Read it for the excitement, the romance and the finely drawn word pictures of a fascinating time and place, but not as a history book.
Format:Paperback
This book is set in India in the period of French English rivalry, between 1740 and 1750. It involves a young American born Englishman, his piratical father, the condesending East India Company and the French on one side , and the convulated politics of the Moslem controlled Hindu majority states of India. Of course there is the love interest of Hayden Flint, bethrothed to a rich merchants daughter, who , during his adventure into the Indian courts, falls in love with Yasim, wife of Mohammad Ali Khan, big-time Prince. Robert Clive plays a big part, as a young man. The plot is too complicated to revue and it would spoil your read if the outcome was revealed but if you like historically accurate thrillers this is the one.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Disappointing
8 Jun 2002
Format:Paperback
The novel is uselessely ornate. Language translations is pretty bad, the use of some words and concepts is stretched to a breaking point. For a king to be afraid of his own sword is most laughable and the attempts to counter its curse with a red ruby who's fictional story a British boy concotes on the fly is even more so. Unless you are truly bored with life .. and can't find
anything to read .. don't spend the [money] on this book, go to a movie.
anything to read .. don't spend the [money] on this book, go to a movie.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Finest Novel Ever
6 July 1998
Format:Paperback
This is one of the best historical novels ever written. Strike that, one of the best novels ever written. This man is Tolstoy.
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