# The Root and the Flower

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- Book: [The Root and the Flower](https://www.bookquiver.com/lh-myers/the-root-and-the-flower) ([The Root and the Flower.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lh-myers/the-root-and-the-flower.md))
- Authors: [L.H. Myers](https://www.bookquiver.com/lh-myers), [Penelope Fitzgerald](https://www.bookquiver.com/penelope-fitzgerald)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-09-4032-260-8
- Pages: 656
- Published: 2001-03-31
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Set in the war-torn world of Mughal India and first published in the gathering darkness of the 1930s, the three novels collected in The Root and the Flower are stories of intrigue, murder, and romance;...