In the Palace of Flowers

In The Palace of Flowers is an atmospheric historical novel about Jamīla, an Abyssinian slave, whose fear of being forgotten, of being irrelevant, sets her and Abimelech, a fellow slave and a eunuch, on a path to find meaning, navigating the dangerous and deadly politics of the royal court. Princewill vividly recreates the court of the Iranian Shah in the 1890s, a precarious time of growing public dissent, foreign interference from the Russians and British, and the problem of an ageing ruler with an unsuitable heir. Love, friendship and the bitter politics within the harem, the court and the Shah’s sons and advisors will set the fate of these two slaves.

In Palatul Florilor este un roman istoric de atmosfera despre Jamila, o sclava abisiniana, a carei teama de a fi uitata, de a fi irelevant, o pune pe ea si pe Abimelech, un tovaras sclav si un eunuc, pe calea de a gasi sens, navigand in cele periculoase si politica mortala a curtii regale.