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Regards From The Dead Princess
''Regards from the Dead Princess'', also titled ''Memoirs of an Ottoman Princess'', is a 1987 debut novel by Kenizé Mourad based on her mother's life. It was published in France in 1987 where it sold well. It has been translated into 30 languages and it has a sequel. Plot The book tells the story of Selma Rauf Hanim, granddaughter of the Ottoman Sultan Murad V, from her childhood when the Turkish nobility is expelled from the country and scattered on the shores of the Mediterranean. She studies at a French Catholic college in Lebanon. Lack of money obliges her to agree to an arranged marriage with a Shiite Indian prince. The heroine who does not resign herself to the weight of tradition, but moves to Paris in the middle of the Second World War. She is pregnant, but she will finally own herself. Background and publication The book took four years to write as Kenizé Mourad Kenizé Hussain de Kotwara, generally known as Kenizé Mourad, (born 1939) is a French journalist and n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenizé Mourad
Kenizé Hussain de Kotwara, generally known as Kenizé Mourad, (born 1939) is a French journalist and novelist. Until 1983, she was a reporter for the ''Nouvel Observateur'' working in the Middle East. She then turned to literature, publishing the international best-seller ''De la part de la princesse morte'' (''Regards from the Dead Princess'') in 1987 which told the story of her family. ''Les jardins de Badalpour'', further documenting her family history, followed in 1998. Biography Born in Paris in November 1939, Kenizé Hussain de Kotwara is the daughter of Selma Hanımsultan, who was the daughter of Hatice Sultan (daughter of Murad V), Hatice Sultan and the grand-daughter of Murad V, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Her father was the Indian Raja of Kotwara, Sajid Husain Zaidi. After her mother died in poverty when she was only a two years old, she was brought up in a Catholic environment by a French family. Kenizé chose to use the name Mourad in honour of her great grandfath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murad V
Murad V ( ota, مراد خامس, translit=Murâd-ı ḫâmis; tr, V. Murad; 21 September 1840 – 29 August 1904) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire who reigned from 30 May to 31 August 1876. The son of Abdulmejid I, he supported the conversion of the government to a constitutional monarchy. His uncle Abdulaziz had succeeded Abdulmejid to the throne and had attempted to name his own son as heir to the throne, which spurred Murad to participate in the overthrow of his uncle. However, his own frail physical and mental health caused his reign to be unstable and Murad V was deposed in favor of his half-brother Abdul Hamid II after only 93 days. Early life Murad V was born as Şehzade Mehmed Murad on 21 September 1840 in the Çırağan Palace in Istanbul. His father was Sultan Abdulmejid I, son of Sultan Mahmud II and Bezmiâlem Sultan. His mother was Şevkefza Kadın, an ethnic Georgian. In September 1847, aged seven, he was ceremoniously circumcised together with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels Set In Paris
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
