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The Sultan's Seal Jenny White (Boston University)

The Sultan's Seal By Jenny White (Boston University)

The Sultan's Seal by Jenny White (Boston University)


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Summary

A wonderful read.... An historical novel of the highest quality. -Iain Pears

The Sultan's Seal Summary

The Sultan's Seal: A Novel by Jenny White (Boston University)

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 Sultan's Seal Reviews

Intricate and subtle as a Turkish carpet, lush as silk upon the skin...A fascinating and remarkably knowledgeable look at a society in flux, its very appealing characters caught between East and West, Islam and Christianity, and bound in a web of murder and treachery that only the lucky few may escape. -- Diana Gabaldon
Set in nineteenth-century Istanbul, The Sultan's Seal lingers in the mind like the strong, delightful smell of an incense you will remember the next time you catch it in the air. -- Elif Shafak, author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
CSI goes Ottoman Empire...with readers easily transported back to those days when mystery and intrigue lurked around every corner. -- Booklist (starred review)
A passionate debut...Lyrical...enchanting. -- Publishers Weekly

About Jenny White (Boston University)

Jenny White is the author of the Kamil Pasha series: The Sultan's Sea (a finalist for the Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award), The Abyssinian Proof and The Winter Thief. She is a professor of anthropology at Boston University, specializing in Turkey.

Additional information

GOR001900622
9780393329209
0393329208
The Sultan's Seal: A Novel by Jenny White (Boston University)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
20070413
366
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