In Search of Amrit Kaur - Livia Sambuy Manera

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An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris

A lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that moves from the Punjab of the Raj to 1930s Paris and the cataclysm of the Second World War A lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that moves from the Punjab of the Raj to 1930s Paris and the Second World War ‘Remarkable and compelling’ Edmund de Waal ‘Thoroughly engaging’ Kamila Shamsie In a Mumbai museum in 2007, Livia Manera Sambuy encounters a photograph that will change her life forever. The caption claims that the Punjabi princess Amrit Kaur sold her jewels in occupied Paris to save Jewish lives, only to be arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp where she died within a year. For Livia, this marks the beginning of a compulsive search for the truth as she delves into the history of the British Raj, the diamonds and sapphires of the twentieth-century aristocracy, and the lives of extraordinary figures: bankers, jewellers, explorers and spies.

EAN: 9781529922721

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Kod produktu

44732B04505KS

Rok wydania

Strony

Oprawa

Miekka

Format

12.6x19.6cm