In the early seventeenth century, young Venetian Filippo Veroneo travels from Venice to Afghanistan to rescue his imprisoned father, Geronimo, and stops in India to raise the ransom by selling his father's beautiful diamond to the ruler Shah Jehan, who later uses the stone as the model for the Taj Mahal.
- ISBN10 0374308462
- ISBN13 9780374308469
- Publish Date 10 November 2005 (first published 6 November 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar Straus Giroux
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 340
- Language English