Taj

When his queen, Arjumand Banu - Mumtaz-i-Mahal, the Chosen One of the Palace - died, Shah Jahan wanted to build a monument that was the image of his perfectove for her. For twenty-two years, twent ...

When his queen, Arjumand Banu - Mumtaz-i-Mahal, the Chosen One of the Palace - died, Shah Jahan wanted to build a monument that was the image of his perfectove for her. For twenty-two years, twenty thousand menaboured day and night to fulfil the emperors obsession. The result was the Taj Mahal, a marble mausoleumined with gold, silver and precious jewels. This powerful novel narrates the story of the Taj on two parallelevels. The first one tells the passionateove story of Shah Jahan and Arjumand till her death through the voices of three main characters - Arjumand, Shah Jahan and Isa, Arjumand