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Wallach, Janet

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ISBN 10: 0385490461 ISBN 13: 9780385490467

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 2003

Riassunto

A fictional portrait of the life of AimTe Dubucq, who was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and placed in a Turkish harem, traces her relationships with several powerful sultans and the events that led to her emergence as one of the most influential women in the Ottoman Empire.

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Praise for Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell

"Wallach deals superbly with Arab politics and history, unfolding clearly the extraordinary complications that surrounded the corrupt and enfeebled Ottoman Empire..."
-The New Yorker

"Janet Wallach handles the complex politics of the period with ease and authority..."
-San Francisco Chronicle

"In Desert Queen, scholarship and imagination work together. Wallach knows her subject so well that she can recreate the rhythm of Bell’s own zest."
-Chicago Tribune

"[Janet Wallach] is an expert on the region and her knowledge is on full display..."
-New York Times Book Review

L'autore:

A frequent contributor to publications such as The Washington Post Magazine, JANET WALLACH is the author of Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Chanel: Her Style and Her Life, and three books on the Middle East (co-authored with her husband). She divides her time between New York City and Connecticut.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0385490461
• ISBN 13: 9780385490467
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 316