The Sultan's Seal: A Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels) - 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 The Sultan's Seal: A Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels) write by Jenny White. This book was released on 2007-02-17. The Sultan's Seal: A Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A wonderful read…. An historical novel of the highest quality." —Iain Pears 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. Reading group guide included. Includes the first chapter of the next Kamil Pasha novel.
The Abyssinian Proof: A Kamil Pasha Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels)
The Abyssinian Proof: A Kamil Pasha Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels) - 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 The Abyssinian Proof: A Kamil Pasha Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels) write by Jenny White. This book was released on 2009-03-16. The Abyssinian Proof: A Kamil Pasha Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An immensely enjoyable read, richly textured and wonderfully atmospheric."—Sarah Graves Constantinople, May 1453. In the dying days of the Byzantine Empire, Isaak Metochites and his family are entrusted with a silver reliquary carved with the figure of a weeping angel and the inscription: Behold the Proof of Chora, Container of the Uncontainable. Four hundred years later, magistrate Kamil Pasha is plagued by thefts of antiquities from mosques and churches and a series of murders in which the bodies bear the same distinctive mark. Sources lead Kamil to a hidden sect descended from Abyssinian slaves living in an abandoned cistern in Istanbul's gritty underworld. The reemergence of the forgotten reliquary sets off a brutal race between those sworn to protect it and those who will stop at nothing to gain its explosive secret.
The Winter Thief: A Kamil Pasha Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels)
The Winter Thief: A Kamil Pasha Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels) - 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 The Winter Thief: A Kamil Pasha Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels) write by Jenny White. This book was released on 2011-02-21. The Winter Thief: A Kamil Pasha Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A deftly plotted and clever tale of intrigue, duplicity, and violence."—Booklist, starred review January 1888. Vera Arti carries The Communist Manifesto in Armenian through Istanbul's streets, unaware of the men following her. The police discover a shipload of guns, and the Imperial Ottoman Bank is blown up. Suspicion falls on a socialist commune that Arti's friends organized in the eastern mountains. Investigating, Special Prosecutor Kamil Pasha encounters a ruthless adversary in the secret police who has convinced the Sultan that the commune is leading an Armenian secessionist movement and should be destroyed, along with the surrounding villages. Kamil must stop the massacre, but he finds himself on the wrong side of the law, framed for murder and accused of treason, his family and the woman he loves threatened. The Winter Thief explores the dark obsessions of the most powerful and dangerous men of the dying Ottoman Empire, as well as the era's mad idealism.
Money Makes Us Relatives
Money Makes Us Relatives - 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 Money Makes Us Relatives write by Jenny Barbara White. This book was released on 2004. Money Makes Us Relatives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Money Makes Us Relatives shows how women's work in Turkey is viewed as a poorly-paid extension of domestic family labor, opening up key debates about women's roles in late global capitalism.
At the Breakfast Table
At the Breakfast Table - 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 At the Breakfast Table write by Defne Suman. This book was released on 2022-09-01. At the Breakfast Table available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Told from four different perspectives, At the Breakfast Table is a story of hidden histories and family secrets, from the author of The Silence of Scheherazade. Buyukada, Turkey, 2017. In the glow of a late summer morning, family gather for the 100th birthday of the famous artist Shirin Saka. It ought to be a time of fond reminiscence, looking back on a long and fruitful artistic career, on memories spanning almost a century. But the deep past is something Shirin has spent a lifetime trying to conceal. Her grandchildren, Nur and Fikret, and great-grandchild, Celine, do not know what she's hiding, though they are intimately aware of the secret's psychological consequences. The siblings invite family friend and investigative journalist Burak along to interview Shirin – in celebration of her centenary, and also in the hope of persuading her to open up. Eventually Shirin begins to express her pain the only way she knows how. She paints a story onto her dining room wall, revealing a history wiped from public consciousness and generations of her family's history. 'Fiercely intelligent, finely textured and achingly beautiful.' Elif Shafak
