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	• Beneath a Marble Sky John Shors NAL Trade, 2006 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 92 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A great book

Coming back from a trip to India, I picked up this book at an airport. Traveling is hard on me because I can't sleep on the plane. But this flight home was a joy and I didn't want it to end before I was done with the book. I knew from the first chapter on that I was hooked. This is a beautifully written book, a work of art, great penmanship, fantastic story telling, intellectually fulfilling. A book full of colorful characters with a rich love story. I HIGHLY recommend it.

Wonderful-looking forward to more from this author

I wish I could remember who recommended this book to me so I could thank them! I'm not usually a fan of historical fiction, but this is a lovely book. The author did a good job of letting us get to know the characters, which is something mostly missing in new fiction today. I am looking forward to the next novel from this author.

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Best Book This Year !

Our book club chose this as our Spring selection and the verdict was unanimous. It was the best story we had read all year. We spoke with the author during our meeting and talked about his experience in Japan as a teacher, his motivation for the story line and his research into the real characters in this love story of persistence and courage. It reminded me of Memoirs of a Geisha, as the main character was propelled through a life of challenges by holding on to true love and her bravery to face any obstacle which came her way. The author wrote a beautiful story. A pleasure to read.

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Wonderful!

Beautiful story! It was one of those books I kept thinking about when I wasn't reading.

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Journey to dazzling seventeenth-century Hindustan, where the reigning emperor, consumed with grief over the tragic death of his beloved wife, commissions the building of the Taj Mahal as a testament to the marvel of their love. Princess Jahanara, their courageous daughter, recounts their mesmerizing tale, while sharing her own parallel tale of forbidden love with the celebrated architect of the Taj Mahal. This impressive novel sweeps readers away to a historical Hindustan brimming with action and intrigue in an era when, alongside the brutalities of war and oppression, architecture and the art of love and passion reached a pinnacle of perfection.

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