A review by adamjcalhoun
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie

3.0

A good book, though not on the level of Midnight's Children or The Satanic Verses. The plot revolves around a story of a story, attempting to capture the multicultural and polyglot lands of Mughal India and Europe. It contains typical postmodern questions concerning truth in storytelling; that's not necessarily a bad thing, but not a new thing either. A lot of it is very reminiscent of Pamuk's My Name is Red. Overall worth reading, and contains enough evocative turns of phrase to give some thrills to any reader that appreciates good writing.