Author: Indu Sundaresan
Book title: The Mountain of Light
Narrator: Vesna Jaćimović [Vesna Yatchimovich]
Duration: 12 hours and 52 minutes
No. of pages in black print: 338
Publisher: Laguna [Lagunar]
Place and year of publishing: Belgrade, 2014
About the book:
A magnificent story about one of the most famous diamonds in the world.
It tells the turbulent history of the legendary diamond of Indian origin, weighing one hundred and eighty-six carats, and of the people who once possessed it.
As empires rose and fell, and powerful kings fought for dominion, the brilliant shine of this stone never faded. This is the diamond known as the Mountain of Light – the Koh-i-Noor – in whose faceted surfaces the entire story of love, adventure, conquest, and betrayal is reflected.
Its origin is woven into myth, yet in reality this captivating jewel passed from hand to hand for centuries, from ruler to ruler across India, Persia, and Afghanistan.
In 1850, this ancient precious stone was sent to the other side of the world, where it would play a decisive role in the intertwined destinies of a boy-king from India and a young English queen – a queen who claims the Mountain of Light, and even India itself, as jewels of her expanding empire, considering them the brightest treasures of the imperial crown.