THE THIRD PRINCE by PHIROZ H MADON

Alright, I admit that I was biased right from the start. I surrender to boos and catcalls, but the fact is that when I started flipping through the first few pages, I had a strong inclination to link matters with The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie. Because the setting was pretty much the same. Think of it. We are back to the 17th century, we have tale of Agra, right in the midst of Akbar’s court, a woman who arrives in the magical city to become a concubine and faces adventures of her own, and in this phantasmagorical melee, we have a succession fiasco with a drunkard crown prince being humiliated to succeed an ailing monarch.
And when the matter gets quite out of hand, out pops a Prince long forgotten by society and families, a third Prince of royal lineage, barred from social and royal recognition, until that moment. Does the enchanting woman succeed, or does the destiny of history run its own course? Questions that are all thrown before you in an enchanting euphoria of magic realism, a forte that I had thought till date had only been mastered by the great Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Sir Salman Rushdie.
But no, out of nowhere comes Phiroz H Madon, a master writer, who weaves tales of such passion and sincerity, of royal callousness and deviant ideologies that the intricate web twists and turns into a horrible catastrophe, waiting to explode.
I am impressed. The Third Prince has swept me off my feet. Unthinkable, unimaginable, this book is going to be the toast of festivals and gatherings. It is a must read.
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