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Die Dame mit der bemalten Hand
“The Lady with the Painted Hand” (title translated by AI)
Christine Wunnicke (born 1966)
English editions
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Bombay, 1764. India was never on the itinerary, and certainly not Elephanta, a scruffy island full of snakes, goats and caves with strange figures on their walls. Yet here the German mathematician and explorer Carsten Niebuhr is stranded, in an episode missing from his famous travel account, though he should be in Arabia. So is Meister Musa, a Persian maker of astrolabes from Jaipur, who meant to be in Mecca. In passable Arabic they while away the days until their rescue, misunderstanding each other between East and West and arguing amiably about the stars: where one sees a woman, the other sees only her painted hand.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 165 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- India, 1764
- First published
- 2020 by Berenberg Verlag
- Author's age
- 54 when first published
- ISBN
9783946334767 (original)
- More
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