Named one of the top ten first novels of 2007
Finalist for the Crime Writers' Association's Ellis Peters Historical Crime
Award
"A wonderful read...about the exotic and fascinating world of the late Ottoman Empire. Of the highest quality." --
Iain Pears, author of An Instance of the Fingerpost
"A fascinating portrait of Turkey at a time of fateful transition." -- London
Literary Review
JENNY WHITE WILL READ FROM HER NOVEL THE SULTAN'S SEAL
AND TALK ABOUT HER EXPERIENCES IN TURKEY
It is 1886, Istanbul. The naked body of an Englishwoman washes ashore, wearing a pendant inscribed with the sultan's seal. Kamil Pasha, a magistrate in the new secular courts, must uncover her murderer, while treading lightly around the empire's rulers and the foreigners trying to tear it apart. A gripping tale of adventure that transports the reader to nineteenth-century Turkey, this novel is also a lyrical meditation on the contradictory desires of the human soul.
Jenny White is a professor of anthropology at Boston University and the author of numerous nonfiction works on Turkish society and politics. The Sultan’s Seal is her first novel. A sequel, The Abyssinian Proof, will be published next February.
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