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ISBN: 9798200140985
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ISBN: 9798200140992
| Runtime: | 11.37 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
The Janissary Tree, the first book in a new series, is set in a most extraordinary world and features a most extraordinary sleuth.It is 1836. Europe is modernizing, and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the sultan announces sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens the fragile balance of power in his court. Who is behind them? Only one intelligence agent can be trusted to find out: Yashim Togalu, a man both brilliant and near-invisible in this world.
You see, Yashim is a eunuch.
He leads us into the palace's luxurious seraglios and Istanbul's teeming streets, and leans on the wisdom of a dyspeptic Polish ambassador, a transsexual dancer, and a Creole-born queen mother. He finds sweet salvation in the arms of another man's wife (this is not your everyday eunuch). And he introduces us to the Janissaries. For 400 years earlier the sultan had them crushed. Are the Janissaries staging a brutal comeback?
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Goodwin, the author of a well-received history of the Ottoman Empire, Lords of the Horizons, makes a welcome shift to fiction with this impressive first of a new mystery series set in the empire’s declining decades.” —Publishers Weekly
“As Yashim wends his way in and out of the opulent palace and through the sordid back alleys of nineteenth-century Istanbul, the reader is treated to an appropriately exotic tour of a time and a place where intrigue, deceit, and corruption fueled perilous personal and political passions.” —Booklist
“An unusual, exotic historical mystery that reads like literature and moves like a thriller.” —George Pelecanos, author of Drama City
A work of dazzling beauty…The rare coming together of historical scholarship and curiosity about distant places with luminous writing. —The New York Times Book Review
Author
Author Bio: Jason Goodwin
Jason Goodwin is the author of Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire, A Time for Tea: Through China and India in Search of Tea, and On Foot to the Golden Horn, among others. He lives in Sussex, England, with his wife and four children.
Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Retail CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Runtime: | 11.37 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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