A tall, yellow-haire young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital.

To be released at York bookcrossing at the Brigantes.

Picked up at the August York Bookcrossing meetup.

I always enjoy Salman Rushdie, but this wasn't one of his strongest? I mean, it was still great - a brilliantly engaging story examining the idea of narrative itself, but it just seemed to peter out towards the end.

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I loved the character of Vespucci, the Mogor dell'Amore, but the character just got thinner and thinner towards the end of the book. He started out so richly, and just felt like a plot device towards the end. Perhaps that was deliberate, that he becomes less and less important as his story goes on, but if so, that was very frustrating! And Rushdie's women in this book felt very two-dimensional, which I didn't feel was the case in Midnight's Children or The Moor's Last Sigh.

So, still a good read, but not Rushdie's best.

To be released at the September York Bookcrossing meetup.