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008    221004s2023    nyuabf   b    001 0beng   
010      2022045237 
019    1264275735 
020    9780374106010|q(hardcover) 
020    0374106010|q(hardcover) 
035    (OCoLC)1346988857|z(OCoLC)1264275735 
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050 00 DS481.A626|bS3613 2022 
082 00 954.03/56092|aB|223/eng/20221006 
100 1  Sambuy, Livia Manera,|d1958-|eauthor. 
240 10 Il segreto di Amrit Kaur.|lEnglish 
245 10 In search of Amrit Kaur :|ba lost princess and her 
       vanished world /|cLivia Manera Sambuy ; translated from 
       the Italian by Todd Portnowitz. 
246 30 Lost princess and her vanished world 
250    First American edition. 
264  1 New York :|bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,|c2023. 
300    x, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations (some color), map ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "Originally published in 2022 by Feltrinelli, Italy, as Il
       segreto di Amrit Kaur." 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-314) and 
       index. 
505 0  Glimpses -- Voices -- Road trip -- Louise -- Sapphires of 
       Kashmir -- Goodbyes. 
520    "As she builds her own life anew, an Italian writer 
       embarks on an all-consuming search for the true story of 
       the mysterious princess H. H. Amrit Kaur of Mandi"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
520    "On a sweltering day in 2007, having just lost her brother
       to illness, Livia Manera Sambuy finds herself at a museum 
       in Mumbai, enthralled by a 1924 photograph of a stunningly
       elegant Indian princess. What she reads in the picture's 
       caption will change her life forever. This alluring 
       Punjabi royal had supposedly sold her jewels in occupied 
       wartime Paris to save Jewish lives, only to be arrested by
       the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp, where she 
       died within a year.  Could it be true? And if so, how 
       could such a sensational story have gone unreported? 
       Almost against her will, Manera becomes drawn into the 
       mystery of Amrit Kaur. Delving into the history of the 
       British Raj, its durbars and society balls and jubilees, 
       she shows us the precipitous decline of India's royal 
       caste through the lives of extraordinary figures such as 
       Amrit's father, the larger-than-life Maharaja Jagatjit 
       Singh of Kapurthala; the Jewish banker Albert Kahn; and 
       the Russian explorer Nicholas Roerich--all while pursuing 
       the elusive Amrit Kaur's story.  When she meets with the 
       princess's eighty-year-old daughter, Manera's search takes
       on a new dimension, as she strives to reintroduce an 
       orphan to a mother who disappeared in 1933, leaving behind
       two children, her raja husband, and a legacy of activism 
       in India's nascent women's civil rights movement." -- 
       inside front jacket flap. 
546    Text in English, translated from the Italian. 
600 00 Amrit Kaur,|cRani of Mandi,|d1904-1948. 
600 10 Sambuy, Livia Manera,|d1958-|xTravel. 
648  7 1900-1999|2fast 
650  0 Princesses|zIndia|vBiography. 
650  7 Kings and rulers.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00987694 
650  7 Manners and customs.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01007815 
650  7 Princesses.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01076505 
650  7 Travel.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01155558 
651  0 Kapūrthala (India : District)|vBiography. 
651  0 Mandi (India : District)|vBiography. 
651  0 Paris (France)|vBiography. 
651  0 India|xKings and rulers. 
651  0 India|xSocial life and customs|y20th century. 
651  0 India|xHistory|y20th century. 
651  7 France|zParis.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01205283 
651  7 India.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01210276 
651  7 India|zKapūrthala (District)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01331045 
651  7 India|zMandi (District)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01331554 
655  7 Biographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919896 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
655  7 Travel writing.|2lcgft 
700 1  Portnowitz, Todd,|d1986-|etranslator. 
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