![]() Despite the title, there is more than one enchantress of Florence, and other key characters have multiple names and perhaps identities as well. It’s plain that the author worked hard on this deliriously ambitious book, and so must the reader. ![]() This is a very different sort of novel for Rushdie ( Shalimar the Clown, 2005, etc.), partly based in Renaissance Italy and intensely researched (there are pages of entries listed in its bibliography), though themes of East and West, love and betrayal, religion and unbelief, sex and sex, are familiar from previous work. ![]() Readers who succumb to the spell of Rushdie’s convoluted, cross-continental fable may find it enchanting those with less patience could consider it interminable. ![]()
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