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Yashim is no ordinary detective. It's not that he's particularly brave. Or that he cooks so well, or reads French novels. Not even that his best friend is the Ambassador from Poland, whose country has vanished from the map. Yashim is a eunuch. As the Sultan plans a series of radical reforms to his empire, a concubine is strangled in the palace harem. And a young cadet is found butchered in the streets of Istanbul. Delving deep into the city's crooked alleyways, and deeper still into its tumultuous past, Yashim discovers that some people will go to any lengths to preserve the traditions of the Ottoman Empire. Brilliantly evoking Istanbul in the 1830s, "The Janissary Tree" is a fast-paced literary thriller with a spectacular cast, from mystic orders and lissom archivists to soup-makers and a seductive ambassador's wife. Darker than any of these is the mysterious figure who controls the Sultan's harem.
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A novel of detection and conspiracy in nineteenth-century Istanbul.
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Jason Goodwin studied Byzantine history at Cambridge University and is the author of Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire, among other books of cultural history and travel. He lives in Sussex, England, is married with four children, speaks French and German and once walked to Istanbul from Poland. This is the first of a series of novels featuring Yashim.
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- EditoreFaber & Faber Ltd
- Data di pubblicazione2006
- ISBN 10 0571229212
- ISBN 13 9780571229215
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero edizione1
- Numero di pagine336
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THE JANISSARY TREE: A Novel (Investigator Yashim)
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. First British Edition. Winner of the 2007 Edgar Award for Best Novel. "Historian Goodwin, author of LORDS OF THE HORIZON (1999), introduces a promising new mystery series set in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire. When a string of murders disturbs the tenuous tranquility of the sultan's royal court, savvy eunuch Yashim Togalu is called upon to investigate. Digging deeper into the past in order to understand the perils of the present, Yashim discovers a link between the crimes and the Janissaries, a disloyal band of elite soldiers banned by the sultan ten years earlier. 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." (Margaret Flanagan, Booklist). New, unread, first British edition, first printing copy, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M71. Codice articolo 021901
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. London: Faber and Faber [2006]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New! Very Fine/Very Fine in all respects. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page and dated in the month of publication June 2006. No inscriptions. Winner of the 2007 Edgar Award for Best Novel. The author's first novel, and the first novel in this excellent series about an Istanbul detective, Investigator Yashim, followed by SNAKE STONE. Fiction. [UK-Ld]. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo pp0106-9
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