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The Enchantress of Florence

Name: The Enchantress of Florence
Author: Salman Rushdie

The Enchantress of Florence is the ninth novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 2008. According to Rushdie this is his "most researched book" which required "years and years of reading".The novel was published on 11 April 2008 by Jonathan Cape London, and in the United States by Random House.

“Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.”

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“Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating your life to it, and it spirited you away into fairylands where you were, and looked, frankly absurd.”

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“Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.”

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“My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.”

Salman Rushdie book The Enchantress of Florence

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