![]() ![]() ![]() Lush and romantic, The Feast of Roses is the tale of this power and love.". But she never loses the love of the man who bestows this power upon her-Emperor Jahangir. She demonstrates great strength of character and cunning to get what she wants, sometimes at the cost of personal sorrow when she almost loses her daughter's love. ![]() She combats all her rivals by forming a junta of sorts with three men she can rely on-her father, her brother and Jahangir's son Prince Khurram. Mehrunnisa fits none of the established norms of womanhood in seventeenth-century India. In the second of two novels, The Feast of Roses relates the married life of Mehrunnisa, the twentieth wife of Emperor. Beyond the harem walls, she battles powerful ministers who consider her a mere woman who cannot have a voice in the outside world. She has a formidable rival in the imperial harem, empress Jagat Gosini, who has plotted against Mehrunnisa from early on. Her heroine exercises power in the only way available to a woman in 17th-century India: from behind the veil. But power and wealth do not come easily to Mehrunnisa-she has to fight for them. In The Twentieth Wife, first-time novelist Indu Sundaresan introduces readers to life inside a bejeweled, dazzling birdcage-the world of the Mughal Courts zenana, or imperial harem. He loves her so deeply that he eventually transfers his powers of sovereignty to her. Mehrunnisa, the first woman Jahangir marries for love, is now empress Nur Jahan. ![]() "The love story of Emperor Jahangir and Mehrunnisa, begun in The Twentieth Wife, continues in The Feast of Roses. ![]()
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