Remarkable and compelling. I loved this book EDMUND DE WAALAn exemplary sleuth, both astute and openminded . . . Manera Sambuy writes with impassioned style and insight TELEGRAPHA 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 WarOn a sweltering day in 2007, Italian writer Livia Manera Sambuy encounters a photograph of Princess Amrit Kaur in a Mumbai museum. The picture is arresting, gorgeous but the caption will change Livias life forever. It claims that the Punjabi princess 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.Its a sensational story and for Livia, 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 twentiethcentury aristocracy, and the lives of extraordinary figures bankers, jewellers, explorers and spies. Past and present converge when Livia travels to meet Bubbles, the princesss daughter, now in her eighties. Striving to reconnect Bubbles with the elusive woman who abandoned her in 1933, Livia unearths a strange and complicated family history one that diverges unexpectedly from the story that she set out to uncover.Filled with glamour and terror, beauty and sorrow, In Search of Amrit Kaur is an engrossing detective story, a kaleidoscopic history lesson, and a moving...

Binding: Hardback;352 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: HBWQ; Weight: 662 g; Dimensions: 163 x 223 x 35

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