The Sultan's Seal by Jenny White
A naked body of a white woman had been found floating in the Bosphorus. For Kamil Pasha, the city's magistrate, there are echoes of a similar murder of an English governess. Sybil is the daughter of an English Ambassador and she uses her connections to help Pasha. As they work to untangle the threads of both murders, they make powerful enemies.
'A remarkable piece of fiction..This is a fast-paced read with a breathless, page-turning pace, and a sense of mounting tension...written in gorgeously sensuous language...As well as being a gripping thriller, The Sultan's Seal is a knowledgeable portrayal of life in 19th-century Turkey, as it struggles to find a middle road between traditional Eastern values and the modern attitudes of the West' WATERSTONES BOOKS QUARTERLY 'in her highly accomplished first novel Jenny White, whose subject is Turkish society and politics, steers a clever course between action and background...A neat mystery and persuasive portrait of credible people is joined seamlessly onto a fascinating portrait of Turkey at a time of fateful transition.' -- Jessica Mann LITERARY REVIEW (May 2006)
Jenny White is a tenured professor of anthropology at Boston University, specializing in Turkish studies. She's written monographs on 20th-century politics and has been studying the Islamic party that recently won the elections in Turkey. Her book on that party became required reading in the State Department. She started writing THE SULTAN'S SEAL because she wanted to do something fun.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780297852568 |
| ISBN 10 | 0297852566 |
| Title | The Sultan's Seal |
| Author | Jenny White |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2006-03-09 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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