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PRAISE
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"Exquisite description, exotic details and vivid language..."
"...a rich, sensual fairytale about love as well as a realistic tale of mothers and daughters."
-Kristin Johnson,
MyShelf.com
"Mossanen's language soars as she sweeps readers from the lush bedrooms of the courtesans to the exotic locale of Persia then finally to the diamond mines of South Africa, taking the reader on a magical trip through history. This book is more sensual and satisfying than 10 pounds of chocolate, and you won't put on a pound."
-Page Traynor,
Romantic Times
4 1/2 Gold stars (highest rating)
selected best book of the month
"From the first page of Courtesan, I felt as if I had stepped into a mirage. The dream landscape Mossanen builds, one stunning image at a time, cements her place as a magic realist with a decidedly erotic twist."
-M.J. Rose,
author of The Halo Effect
"A cross between Girl With the Pearl Earring and The Da Vinci Code, Dora Levy Mossanen's new novel invites us into a great courtesan's satin-lined bed and draws us into the carnal grip of turn-of-the-century Paris and Persia."
-Alison Leslie Gold,
author of Fiet's Vase
and The Devil's Mistress
"Dora Levy Mossanen's characters, Muslim and Jew, clash, glitter, and beckon us into a fin-de-siècle world of fantasy, sex, diamonds, greed, and madness. Drunk, we awaken in a dangerous underworld of clashing cultures -- and the forbidden loves that build fragile bridges over them."
-Ann Rowe Seaman,
author of Swaggart
and America's Most Hated Woman
"... an exhilarating epic that roams from Persia to Paris, to South Africa, carrying the reader along on a wave of intrigue, murder, and romance.
-John Rechy,
author of City of Night
"Dora Levy Mossanen masters the fine-tuned powers of language. She has the rare talent to transform the "lust-vein" of our imagination into a panoply of lyrical imagery, at once visual and sensual. Her characters live out loud in the best tradition of a Zola-styled narrative."
-James Ragan,
Poet and author of Lusions
"A first-rate sensual read set in exotic locales...I particularly enjoyed the stories of these unique women."
-Wendy Howard Goldberg,
co-author of
Marry Me!: How legendary Couples
Courted and Proposed
and co-author of New York Times bestseller Hollywood Moms
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