Setting the daughter of a deposed sultan, her doctor husband and the Royal Chemist on course for an ancient island on the brink of catastrophe, the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Name Is Red delivers a dazzling historical epic set against the backdrop of the declining Ottoman Empire.
An epic and playful mystery of passion, fear, scandal and murder, from one of history's master storytellers. 1901. Night draws in. With the stealth of a spy vessel, the royal ship Aziziye approaches the famous vistas of Mingheria, the twenty-ninth state of the ailing Ottoman Empire.
The ship carries Princess Pakize, the daughter of a deposed sultan, her doctor husband, and the Royal Chemist, Bonkowski Pasha. Not all of them will survive the weeks ahead. There are rumours of plague - rumours some in power will try to suppress.
But plague is not the only killer. Mingheria is on the cusp of catastrophe, and the future of a fragile empire is at stake.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571352951
Number of pages: 704
Weight: 576 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 42 mm
Edition: Main
This novel, which took five years to complete, was a labour of love for Pamuk. It is a perfect allegory of the Ottoman Empire in the mid-19th century. Set on an imaginary island, Mingheria, in the midst of a plague... More
This is an extraordinary and sprawling novel, ostensibly about the outbreak of plague on a fictional Mediterranean island in 1901 but it could also be about the slow decline of the Ottoman Empire, public attitudes to... More
This book is about Princess Pakize, daughter of a deposed sultan, her husband, and the Royal Chemist, Bonkowski Pasha, as they travel to Mingheria amid an outbreak of plague. I can’t really tell you much more than... More
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