The Janissary Tree: Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award 2007, Category Best Novel (A 'Yashim the Eunuch' Mystery) - Softcover

Goodwin, Jason

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571229239 ISBN 13: 9780571229239

Verlag: Faber & Faber, London, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Yashim is no ordinary detective. Yashim is a eunuch.A concubine is strangled in the Sultan's 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 intoits 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 bloody, witty and fast-paced literary thriller with a spectacular cast.

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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. He lives in Sussex, is married with four children, speaks French and German and once walked to Istanbul from Poland.

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0571229239
• ISBN 13: 9780571229239
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 332
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