{"product_id":"9781529922721","title":"In Search of Amrit Kaur : An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Sambuy, Livia Manera \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eIndia\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 9 January 2025 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 352 pages\u003cbr\u003e198 x 130 x 20 | 260g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that moves from the Punjab of the Raj to 1930s Paris and the Second World War‘Remarkable and compelling’ Edmund de Waal‘Thoroughly engaging’ Kamila ShamsieIn a Mumbai museum in 2007, Livia Manera Sambuy encounters a photograph that will change her life forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe caption claims that the Punjabi princess Amrit Kaur sold her jewels in occupied Paris to save Jewish lives, only to be arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp where she died within a year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Livia, this marks the beginning of a compulsive search for the truth as she delves into the history of the British Raj, the diamonds and sapphires of the twentieth-century aristocracy, and the lives of extraordinary figures: bankers, jewellers, explorers and spies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘An ambitious, absorbing work that peels back the layers of its enigmatic subject and digs deeply into the author's own emotional vicissitudes’ Jhumpa Lahiri‘A tantalizing true story . . . In Search of Amrit Kaur plunges into the glittery world of Indian royalty’ New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Guisborough Bookshop Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49625961431376,"sku":"9781529922721","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0860\/4988\/2448\/files\/9781529922721_1f8e274a-9ba4-4fa8-bca0-a4c7ccf9d70b.jpg?v=1765990906","url":"https:\/\/guisboroughbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781529922721","provider":"guisboroughbookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}