hyphenated twentysomething

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Beneath a Book Club Sky

I just saw on CBS NEWS that this book, Beneath a Marble Sky, is flying off bookshelves, about a 1000 a week and becoming rapidly famous in book club circles. As a way to increase sales and his popularity, the author, John Shors, wrote his email address and a short letter in the new printing of the book. Apparently, many book clubs began contacting him and booking him to come and talk at their book clubs. Now he's booked almost up to 2008!

I hadn't even heard about this book before, but it's gotten some decent reviews. Who knew that there was a book out there written by an Iowan male author about an Indian princess in the first person narrative!

From Amazon:

"Shors's spirited debut novel tells the story of the eldest daughter of the 17th-century emperor who built the Taj Mahal. From her self-imposed exile, Jahanara recalls growing up in the Red Fort; the devotion her parents, Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal, had for each other; and the events that took place during the construction of the fabulous monument to their love."

Have any of you read it or heard about it?

posted by payal @ 6:06 PM

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