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White, Jenny B.

The Sultan's Seal

W W Norton, 2006

25,00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
2006
ISBN
0393060993
Luogo di stampa
New York
Autore
White, Jenny B.
Editori
W W Norton
Soggetto
FICTION ISTANBUL TURKEY
Descrizione
New
Descrizione
H
Sovracoperta
Stato di conservazione
Nuovo
Legatura
Rilegato
Copia autografata
No
Prima edizione
No

Descrizione

A stunningly lyrical debut novel about faith and desire, set within a gripping tale of murder in nineteenth-century Istanbul. Rich in sensuous detail, this first novel brilliantly captures the political and social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Empire. The naked body of a young Englishwoman washes up in Istanbul wearing a pendant inscribed with the seal of the deposed sultan. The death resembles the murder by strangulation of another English governess, a crime that was never solved. Kamil Pasha, a magistrate in the new secular courts, sets out to find the killer, but his dispassionate belief in science and modernity is shaken by betrayal and widening danger. In a lush, mystical voice, a young Muslim woman, Jaanan, recounts her own relationships with one of the dead women and her suspected killer. Were these political murders involving the palace or crimes of personal passion? An absorbing tale that transports the reader to nineteenth-century Turkey, this novel is also a lyrical meditation on the contradictory desires of the human soul.