{"product_id":"in-search-of-amrit-kaur-a-lost-princess-and-her-vanished-world-paperback","title":"In Search of Amrit Kaur: A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLivia Manera Sambuy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTodd Portnowitz\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs she builds her own life anew, an Italian writer embarks on an all-consuming search for the true story of the mysterious princess H. H. Amrit Kaur of Mandi.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a sweltering day in 2007, having just lost her brother to illness, Livia Manera Sambuy finds herself at a museum in Mumbai, enthralled by a 1924 photograph of a stunningly elegant Indian princess. What she reads in the picture's caption will change her life forever. This alluring Punjabi royal had supposedly sold her jewels in occupied wartime Paris to save Jewish lives, only to be arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp, where she died within a year. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCould it be true? And if so, how could such a sensational story have gone unreported? Almost against her will, Manera becomes drawn into the mystery of Amrit Kaur. Delving into the history of the British Raj, its durbars and society balls and jubilees, she shows us the precipitous decline of India's royal caste through the lives of extraordinary figures such as Amrit's father, the larger-than-life Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala; the Jewish banker Albert Kahn; and the Russian explorer Nicholas Roerich--all while pursuing the elusive Amrit Kaur's story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen she meets with the princess's eighty-year-old daughter, Manera's search takes on a new dimension, as she strives to reintroduce an orphan to a mother who disappeared in 1933, leaving behind two children, her raja husband, and a legacy of activism in India's nascent women's civil rights movement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Search of Amrit Kaur\u003c\/i\u003e is an engrossing detective story, a kaleidoscopic history lesson, and a moving portrait of a woman seeking personal freedom against the backdrop of a world in upheaval.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLivia Manera Sambuy\u003c\/b\u003e is an Italian writer whose book of profiles of American writers, \u003ci\u003eDon't Write About\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMe\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2015. She has been a staff writer at the literary pages of the Italian national daily \u003ci\u003eCorriere della Sera\u003c\/i\u003e for more than twenty years and is the author and co-director of two documentary films on Philip Roth. She divides her time between Paris and Tuscany. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTodd Portnowitz\u003c\/b\u003e is the translator of \u003ci\u003eThe Greatest Invention\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLong Live Latin\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGo Tell It to the Emperor: The Selected Poems of Pierluigi Cappello\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he was awarded a Raiziss\/de Palchi Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.95 x 7.95 x 5.11 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763888881952,"sku":"9781250872227","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/fb3a03cd7a70b18752733285f30bee4d.webp?v=1780241404","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/in-search-of-amrit-kaur-a-lost-princess-and-her-vanished-world-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}