Artículos relacionados a The Oracle of Stamboul: A Novel
Críticas
This first novel by a promising young writer is both vivid historical fiction and a haunting fable. --Library Journal
The exotic sights and sounds of nineteenth-century Turkey spring vividly to life in Lukas promising debut...In addition to conducting a delightfully quirky magical mystery tour via an appealingly quirky heroine, Lukas also paints a bold portrait of an empire precariously poised on the chasm between an old and a new world. --Booklist (starred reveiw)
Reseña del editor
They had read the signs, they said: a sea of horses, a conference of birds, the north star in alignment with the moon. It was a prophecy, they said, that their last king had given on his deathwatch, but there was no time to explain...
Late in the summer of 1877, as the Tsar's Royal Cavalry descends on the defenseless Ottoman outpost of Constanta, and a flock of purple and white hoopoes suddenly appears over the town, Eleonora Cohen is brought into the world by a mysterious pair of Tartar midwives who arrive only minutes before the birth. Eleonora, whose mother dies during labor, is raised by her father Yakob, a carpet merchant, and her stern and resentful stepmother. From the moment Eleonora learns to read, her father recognizes that she is an extraordinarily gifted child, a prodigy.
When he sets off by boat for Stamboul on business, his eight-year old daughter, unable to bear the separation, stows away in one of his trunks crammed with carpets. On the shores of the Bosporus, in the house of her father s business partner Moncef Bey, a new life awaits Eleonora. Books, backgammon, sumptuous new dresses, markets, cafes, and some mysterious events she cannot yet decipher. For in Stamboul in 1886 people are not always what they seem. Her tutor, an American minister and educator, may also be a spy. The kindly though elusive Moncef Bey has a past history of secret societies and political intrigue. And what to make of the eccentric though charming Sultan Abdulhamid II himself, beleaguered on all sides as his multi-ethnic Empire crumbles?
THE ORACLE OF STAMBOUL is a marvelously evocative, magical historical novel that will transport readers to another time and place-romantic, exotic, yet perhaps not so different from our own.
"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.
- EditorialHARPER COLLINS US BRAND CODE
- ISBN 10 0062064193
- ISBN 13 9780062064196
- EncuadernaciónTapa blanda
- Número de páginas304
(Ningún ejemplar disponible)
Buscar: Crear una peticiónSi conoce el autor y el título del libro pero no lo encuentra en IberLibro, nosotros podemos buscarlo por usted e informarle por e-mail en cuanto el libro esté disponible en nuestras páginas web.
Crear una petición
