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Overview

Critically acclaimed author Indu Sundaresan picks up where she left off in The Twentieth Wife and The Feast of Roses, returning to seventeenth-century India as two princesses struggle for supremacy of their father’s kingdom.

Trapped in the shadow of the magnificent tomb their grief-stricken father is building for his beloved deceased wife, the emperor’s daughters compete for everything: control over the imperial harem, their father’s affection, and the future of their country. They are forbidden to marry and instead choose to back different brothers in the fight for ultimate power over the throne. But only one of the sisters will succeed. With an enthusiasm for history and a flair for rich detail, Indu Sundaresan brings readers deep into the complicated lives of Indian women of the time period and highlights the profound history of one of the most celebrated works of architecture in the world, the Taj Mahal.

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Sundaresan (The Twentieth Wife) returns to 17th-century India in this romantic fictionalization of the life of Jahanara, the oldest child of the empress Mumtaz Mahal, Shah Jahan's cherished wife. Mumtaz dies in childbirth, leaving four sons, two teenage daughters and a newborn girl. The grief-stricken emperor seeks consolation in the construction of the Taj, the magnificent Luminous Tomb, while the profundity of his mourning exposes his fallibility to his sons, who begin eyeing his throne. Jahanara and her sister Roshanara choose to back different brothers, and they compete to rule in both the royal harem and their father's heart. Before long, Jahanara is the one who succeeds as the emperor's closest confidante, and he refuses to allow her to leave him to marry. Sundaresan has a scholar's fascination with the period; she's at her best describing the opulent court or the construction of the Taj Mahal. Little is known about the actual Jahanara, and Sundaresan has blessed the princess's fictional proxy with such perfection that readers will be tempted to find her flawed siblings not only more believable but also more interesting. (Mar.)
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When a beloved empress dies, her heartbroken husband builds her a tomb called the Taj Mahal, while her children jostle for power and partners. Returning to Mughal history, her topic in two previous novels (In the Convent of Little Flowers, 2008, etc.), Sundaresan brings sober devotion to the dynastic tale, which opens with Empress Mumtaz Mahal's death after the birth of her 14th child. The emperor's grief is so great that he is inclined to give up his hard-won throne, but his increasingly influential eldest daughter Jahanara persuades him to continue. Preparations to erect a monument to the empress at Agra are interleaved with royal power struggles; cliffhanging chapter endings attempt to inject drama and suspense. But the story remains flat, buried under masses of research. Readers with a taste for lyrically delivered detail (the jewelry! the palaces! the bed linen! the polo ponies!) will find Sundaresan's word paintings as colorful as Indian miniatures, albeit just as static. Jahanara remains loyal to her father to the end, despite her love for the courtier whose child she bears. A late power struggle among her four brothers seals the future of the empire. The luminous tomb will outlive them all. A mine of fabulous detail on the daily lives of the Mughal emperors, but fiction requires a more powerful engine than this stolid chronology packed with names, background and sidebars.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781416548799
  • Publisher: Atria Books
  • Publication date: 3/23/2010
  • Pages: 333
  • Sales rank: 645,693
  • Product dimensions: 6.52 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.26 (d)

Meet the Author

Indu Sundaresan was born in India and grew up on Air Force bases all over the country. Her father, a fighter pilot, was also a storyteller—managing to keep his audiences captive and rapt with his flair for drama and timing. He got this from his father, Indu's grandfather, whose visits were always eagerly awaited. Sundaresan’s love of stories comes from both of them, from hearing their stories based on imagination and rich Hindu mythology, and from her father's writings.

After an undergraduate degree in economics from India, Sundaresan came to the U.S. for graduate school at the University of Delaware and has an MS in operations research and an MA in economics. But all too soon, the storytelling gene beckoned.

The Twentieth Wife, Sundaresan’s first novel, won the 2003 Washington State Book Award. Her second novel, The Feast of Roses, is a sequel to the first and continues the story of Mehrunnisa, Empress Nur Jahan’s life as the most powerful woman of the Mughal dynasty that ruled India.

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  • Posted September 15, 2011

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    Sadly, a disappointment.

    Though I thoroughly enjoyed Ms. Sundaresan's previous three novels I have to admit Shadow Princess fell flat and disappointed me. I saw only flashes of the passion and brilliance I felt graced the pages of The Twentieth Wife, The Feast of Roses, and The Splendor of Silence. I found the rest dry and pedantic, the brief quotes from early historical texts at the beginning of each chapter neither tantalized nor illuminated, and I confess I ended up skimming the chapters detailing the minutiae of planning and building the Taj Mahal; which included such riveting details as why one material was chosen for railings but another for the lamps. I must also add that I found numerous incidences of sloppy editing: words out of sequence and sentences that no matter how much I squinted or re-interpreted simply didn't make any kind of sense. Due to my earlier experiences with this author's work I have high expectations when I pick up a novel with her name on it. Sadly, Shadow Princess did not live up to those expectations but I will still be looking for her next book and hoping this was just a fluke.

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  • Posted June 18, 2010

    Rich in intrigue

    In "Shadow Princess" Indu Sundaresan does for 17th century Mughal India what Phillippa Gregory does for the court of Henry VIII. Ms. Sundaresan is an excellent storyteller. This fictionalization of the life of the Princess Jahanara, the eldest daughter of Emperor Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal to commemorate his great love, her mother Mumsat Mahal, is rich in the customs and intrigues of the Emperor's court. After his wife and Jahanara's mother's death in childbirth, Shah Jahan is incolsolable and loses interest in governing his empire; this sets the stage for behind the scene maneuvers as his three sons struggle to become his heir. Jahanara, whose future was full of promise while her mother was alive, is forced into the responsibility of caring for her father while trying to outmaneuver her sister Roshanara for control of their father's harem and which brother will assume the throne. Power struggles and pagentry, along with a fascinating glimpse into the building of the Taj Mahal, make this an engrossing read. I would definitely read the author's other books to learn more about this compelling time in India's history and it's royal family."

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