Regards from the Dead Princess: Novel of a Life

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Summary: One of the best books I have ever read.
Review: I have read this novel in English and in Spanish, and I have found it is one of the best books I have ever read. Historically, It gives you a realistic glimpse of the fall of the Turkish Empire, the life in Lebanon and the life in India during the last days of the British Dominion. The story of the princess and her daughter is dramatic and sweet at the same time. I recommend widely this book to lovers of historical novels.

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Summary: A reader from Tunisia
Review: I have read this novel in French, and I have found it is one of the best books I have ever read. More, I've also read the next book 'The gardens of Badalpour". I recommend widely these books to lovers of historical novels.

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Summary: Novel and History Book
Review: Kenize Mourad, journalist & superb writer, offers the extraordinary story of her mom Selma and uses Turkey, Lebanon, India and France as background with their respective historical and political events that will draw Selma's destiny. The author is sensitive and takes you through the joys, pains and every day struggles of her mom. She transports you from courts & palaces to simple places back to palaces. She introduces you to a multitude of characters from the Ottoman to the British Empire. But most of all the revives the amazing fire burning in her mom, Selma, a women of character and of amazing destiny.

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Summary: Novel and History Book
Review: Kenize Mourad, journalist & superb writer, offers the extraordinary story of her mom Selma and uses Turkey, Lebanon, India and France as background with their respective historical and political events that will draw Selma's destiny. The author is sensitive and takes you through the joys, pains and every day struggles of her mom. She transports you from courts & palaces to simple places back to palaces. She introduces you to a multitude of characters from the Ottoman to the British Empire. But most of all the revives the amazing fire burning in her mom, Selma, a women of character and of amazing destiny.

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Summary: The book that will last forever in my memory.
Review: The story is so intense and gripping that it carries the reader past whatever difficulties there may be in style. Since reading this several years ago, I have haunted the library waiting and looking for the promised second book. I don't know if that was ever translated from the French to English or not. Anyone interested in history or biography will find this book goes over the top in interest.

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Summary: One of my top ten books
Review: This is one of the best books I ever read.It's make me want to learn more about Ottoman empire, more about Turkey, more about mussulms.It's an extraordinary book. For me it's means the search for happiness, and love that Selma never found and her mother either, I am looking forward to read her next book,about the awesome Ottoman empire.

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Summary: Profound and Complex
Review: This is the story of Selma, born at Ortakoy palace in Istambul, daughter of a sultana - princess of royal blood - between slaves, wealth and the splendor of the Ottoman court until the sultanate is abolished by Kemal Ataturk erasing the privileges of the royal family and forcing then to abandone the country, Selma and her mother took refuge in Lebanon where she received a western education and where her adolescent dreams are broken when her mother arranged a wedding with Amir, Raja of Badalpur in India where she lived a boring life of reclusion between the estate of Badalpur and the palace of Lucknow until she whent to France with her loyal eunuc Zeynel to deliver her unborn child in 1939 enjoying for the first time the sensation of freedom and happiness until the nazi invasion that deprived Selma of everything precious in her.
This is an intense novel where the reader travel from different historic periods, WWI, the establishment of the turkish republic, the french occupation of Lebanon, the last years of the British Empire in India and the nazi occupation of France during WWII and the consequent difference in habits, way of life, the economic, political, social and cultural differences of all places she lived.