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The Hands That Built Heaven
Paperback
General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Eleanor Whitmore
Published: May 1 2026
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Twenty thousand men built the world's most famous monument to love. Not one of them was allowed to be remembered.
Agra, 1631. When master stonecutter Arjun receives an imperial summons to work on the Emperor's great monument to his dead wife, he arrives with skill, ambition, and a young family - certain that this is the commission of a lifetime. He is right. But a lifetime is exactly what it will cost.
Over twenty-two years, as the Taj Mahal rises from the banks of the Yamuna in its impossible white perfection, Arjun pours everything into the flowering vines and geometric arabesque of its interior chambers. His panels are the finest work of his hands. They are also the work that will seal his fate.
For the Emperor Shah Jahan has a secret decree. The monument must remain singular. And the men who know how to build it must never be allowed to build again.
The Hands That Built Heaven is a sweeping historical novel about beauty and obsession, sacrifice and erasure, and the terrible cost of making something eternal - the story of every unnamed hand behind every great monument ever built.
Perfect for fans of Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth, Min Jin Lee's Pachinko, and Laila Lalami's The Moor's Account.
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