The novel carries the reader to 16th-century Iran. Javahir voluntarily becomes an eunuch, because only in this way can he get a position at the palace and learn the secret behind his father’s death. He serves the Shah’s daughter, Princess Perihan-khanum, who is endowed not only with beauty and refined taste, but also with political intelligence, willpower, and a thirst for power. When the Shah dies, in the capital a brutal struggle for the throne erupts between her and her brothers…
Palace secrets and intrigues, murders and betrayals, love and hate await the reader in the pages of Anita Amirrezvani’s famous novel.