The Sultan's Seal [electronic resource]
White, Jenny2006
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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 unsolved murder of another Englishwoman, a governess, ten years before. A magistrate in the new secular courts, Kamil Pasha, 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 recounts her own relationship with one of the dead women and with the suspected killer. Were these political murders involving the palace or crimes of personal passion? Rich in sensuous detail, this novel of faith and desire brilliantly captures the political and social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Empire and the contradictory desires of the human soul, transporting listeners to another time and place.
Main title:
The Sultan's Seal [electronic resource] / Jenny White
Author:
White, Jenny, AuthorMcCaddon, Wanda, Narrator
Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Blackstone Publishing, 2006
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Series:
Kamil Pasha
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Jenny White is the author of the Kamil Pasha novels, The Sultan's Seal, The Abyssinian Proof, and The Winter Thief. She is a professor of anthropology and the author of numerous nonfiction works on Turkish society and politics. She lives in Boston.
ISBN:
9781482172034
Language:
English
BRN:
2895889
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