Title : The Garden of Badalpour - Kenizé Mourad - book
Summary :
In India, within the walls of the decrepit palace of the late Rajah of Badalpur, there is a small garden where a young Western woman regularly comes to recharge her batteries, because Zahr, daughter of a sultana and descendant of one of the last sovereigns of Constantinople, is also the daughter of a Rajah, and therefore of this Indian land.
Her story is that of a woman who, upon coming into the world, lost everything: her name, her first name, her age, her country, her parents - her mother, having fled India, entrusted her to an adoptive family before dying. As an adult, Zahr embarks on a desperate search for her true identity, without which she feels she cannot begin to live.
At twenty-one, after many years of searching, she will find her father and her country. She will discover a family that has been torn apart since India's independence, a minority and persecuted Muslim community. Her Western habits shock her and earn her many rebuffs. Furthermore, she is only a woman and, as such, has few rights. But she has finally found the happiness of having a family and a father she adores. Until her world collapses again and she is forced to leave everything behind.
Twenty years later she returns and, after many struggles, ends up understanding that these "belongings" to which everyone clings are in fact only crutches that help one to stand, barriers that limit, often even blinders that blind.
Now, freed from her ghosts, will Zahr be able to move on to other horizons, light, finally ready to dance her life?
Kénizé Mourad was a journalist and worked for twelve years as a senior reporter specializing in Middle Eastern and Indian subcontinent affairs. Ten years ago, she dedicated a famous novel to her family's history: From the Dead Princess (Laffont), which sold several million copies. The Garden of Badalpour is the second installment of this family saga.
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EAN : 9782213601267
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