Istanbul - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Istanbul write by Bettany Hughes. This book was released on 2017-09-19. Istanbul available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul -- resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. For much of its history it was the very center of the world, known simply as "The City," but, as Bettany Hughes reveals, Istanbul is not just a city, but a global story. In this epic new biography, Hughes takes us on a dazzling historical journey from the Neolithic to the present, through the many incarnations of one of the world's greatest cities--exploring the ways that Istanbul's influence has spun out to shape the wider world. Hughes investigates what it takes to make a city and tells the story not just of emperors, viziers, caliphs, and sultans, but of the poor and the voiceless, of the women and men whose aspirations and dreams have continuously reinvented Istanbul. Written with energy and animation, award-winning historian Bettany Hughes deftly guides readers through Istanbul's rich layers of history. Based on meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, this captivating portrait of the momentous life of Istanbul is visceral, immediate, and authoritative -- narrative history at its finest.
Not Even My Name
Not Even My Name - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Not Even My Name write by Thea Halo. This book was released on 2007-04-01. Not Even My Name available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A riveting account of exile from Turkish genocide, brought to light for the first time ever in Sano Halo's personal story Not Even My Name exposes the genocide carried out during and after WW I in Turkey, which brought to a tragic end the 3000-year history of the Pontic Greeks (named for the Pontic Mountain range below the Black Sea). During this time, almost 2 million Pontic Greeks and Armenians were slaughtered and millions of others were exiled. Not Even My Name is the unforgettable story of Sano Halo's survival, as told to her daughter, Thea, and of their trip to Turkey in search of Sano's home 70 years after her exile. Sano Halo was a 10-year-old girl when she was torn from her ancient, pastoral way of life in the mountains and sent on a death march that annihilated her family. Stripped of everything she had ever held dear, even her name, Sano was sold by her surrogate family into marriage when still a child to a man three times her age. Not Even My Name follows Sano's marriage, the raising of her ten children in New York City, and her transformation as an innocent girl who was forced to move from a bucolic life to the 20th century in one bold stride. Written in haunting and eloquent prose, Not Even My Name weaves a seamless texture of individual and group memory, evoking all the suspense and drama of the best told tales.
My Name Istanbul
My Name Istanbul - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Name Istanbul write by Buket Uzuner. This book was released on 2011-07-01. My Name Istanbul available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
My Name Is Red
My Name Is Red - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Name Is Red write by Orhan Pamuk. This book was released on 2006-12-05. My Name Is Red available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Nobel Prize winner and one of today's most prominent contemporary Turkish writers delivers a novel that is a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, a brilliant symposium on the power of art, and a “modern classic … rich and essential” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)—set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul. The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of his realm. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style. But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam, this commission is a dangerous proposition indeed. The ruling elite therefore mustn’t know the full scope or nature of the project, and panic erupts when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears. The only clue to the mystery—or crime?—lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves. Part fantasy and part philosophical puzzle, My Name is Red is a kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex and power. Translated from the Turkish by Erda M Göknar
My name is LIFE
My name is LIFE - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My name is LIFE write by CAPTAIN ANDY Andrzej Jankowski. This book was released on . My name is LIFE available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A great many things come into focus from the deck of an oceangoing yacht, since oceans are not restricted by earthly cares and regulations. Maybe that is why he experiences the wonders of this world so intensely. ‘It all starts with a dream. It begins with one deep dream that most of us have at least once in our lives. And yet most of us never pursue our dreams, as these illusions are not real. We must keep our feet firmly on the ground – this is what our relatives, teachers and so-called common sense and the and the world tell us all the time. They even convince us with a pair of hobnailed soldiers’ shoes. And so instead of illusory dreams, we choose achievable goals as they are more ‘realistic’. And they are so real that we wake up one day and our dreams are long gone. Only sometimes we recall that we used to dream. And then we wonder for a moment if it is not too late to make out deep dream come true.’ The answer to this question is much easier after reading this book.
