After his first two novels, both autobiographical, the granddaughter of the maharani and the lost Princess, gets to test his inventive talents in a pure novel. It will be called honey and almonds and will be published in the spring. His new work will tell the story of three very modern women in the turbulent war Beirut, explains the Lebanese author Maha Akhtar. After the success of his first autobiographical novel, the granddaughter of the maharani, and full dissemination of its sequel, the lost Princess, the Lebanese Maha Akhtar has announced that next spring will publish his third work, this time a fictional story with the civil war in his native country of Fund. Although inspired by some women in his singular family, the new work, which probably will be called honey and almonds, will tell the story of three modern women (a Muslim, another Christian and one Jewish) in the turbulent war Beirut, the author has explained to. The draft, said, already it is finished in English, the language in which type and which is then translated into Spanish for Roca Editorial, which also published his first two books.
A life marked by a secret life of Maha Akhtar, born in Beirut in 1964 and with Lebanese descent, Indian and Spanish, has been marked by a secret and a confession, which his mother, made shortly before his death, in 2005, about the true identity of his biological father. Narrating his fascinating family history and the discovery of his origins in the granddaughter of the maharani, with the tragic life of his mother Zahara, his aunt Hafsah and the Indian family of his father biological, descendant of the Maharaja of Kapurthala, whom the malaguena flamenco dancer Anita Delgado (1890-1962) married (his grandmother), led him to sell over 35,000 copies in Spain and several Latin American countries. The second work by this woman who lives between New York, Seville and New Delhi, the lost Princess, is now in Second Edition just a few months after seeing the light, which promises a good future to This new part of his memoirs. A dramatic family story in the first book told its story from the point of view of the facts, more journalistic, while in the second he does so from a more intimate and emotional aspect that comes to understand and forgive a mother who left her at a British boarding school with 7 years. And despite a family history so dramatic, Maha Akhtar radiates joy and optimism. I am a person very, very normal, and sometimes I wake up in the morning and think that this no can be happening to me. Reality surpasses fiction Akhtar is considered a writer with a lot of luck, since he did not have to imagine anything to write two successful novels. And it is that in his case the cliche that the reality surpasses fiction sometimes complies to one hundred percent. From now on, and with his next third work, gets to test his skills to invent, with a pure novel that, keep the title proposes, honey and almonds, it will do rrencia to the ingredients basic of a typical Lebanese cake, but also to the color and shape that suggest the eyes of three Lebanese women who star in its new history. * You can buy books from Maha Akhtar in PopularLibros source of the news: Maha Akhtar will publish in spring her third novel, this time pure fiction