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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2014-09-15
- Pages
- 480
- ISBN
- 9780393089141
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393089142
ISBN-13
9780393089141
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201646278
Product Key Features
Book Title
Midnight at the Pera Palace : the Birth of Modern Istanbul
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Sociology / General, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2014
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
31.6 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-012360
Reviews
This social history of one of the world's most fascinating cities is as illuminating as it is entertaining. Characters from Trotsky to Hemingway, from a blind Armenian musician to a future pope, help tell the story of how Istanbul transformed itself from a refugee-clogged backwater into a vibrant metropolis. Midnight at the Pera Palace is a true Turkish delight., In this memorably distilled history, Charles King places a strange, wonderful, ornately decaying old hotel at the center of a mare's nest of intrigue, violence, sex, and espionage, all set against the slow dimming of Ottoman magnificence. I loved this book., Popular history at its best, authoritative and hugely entertaining. Few places were as colorful as Istanbul between the wars and King captures all the chaotic brio and contradictions of a city, and a culture, reinventing itself., In this memorably distilled history, Charles King tells us just what the Pera Palace was--the ornately decaying hotel crouched at the center of a mare's nest of intrigue, violence, sex, and espionage, all set against the slow dimming of Ottoman magnificence. I loved this book., Superb--deliciously dense with detail and sheer narrative force as Charles King tells the twentieth-century history of the Near East through the prism of one great city. A sepia-toned classic!, King has combed out the threads of this complex and highly nuanced story in a hugely enjoyable, magnificently researched and deeply absorbing book., Popular history at its best, authoritative and hugely entertaining. Few places were as colorful as Istanbul between the wars and Professor King captures all the chaotic brio and contradictions of a city, and a culture, reinventing itself., A diverse cast, ranging from Muslim beauty queens and Georgian royalty to Leon Trotsky, have left their mark on Istanbul, and King nimbly weaves their threads with enough color to draw in general readers and enough detail to satisfy specialists.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
949.61/8024
Synopsis
At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock. Yet in Istanbul--an ancient crossroads and Turkey's largest city--people were looking toward an uncertain future. Never purely Turkish, Istanbul was home to generations of Greeks, Armenians, and Jews, as well as Muslims. It welcomed White Russian nobles ousted by the Russian Revolution, Bolshevik assassins on the trail of the exiled Leon Trotsky, German professors, British diplomats, and American entrepreneurs--a multicultural panoply of performers and poets, do-gooders and ne'er-do-wells. During the Second World War, thousands of Jews fleeing occupied Europe found passage through Istanbul, some with the help of the future Pope John XXIII. At the Pera Palace, Istanbul's most luxurious hotel, so many spies mingled in the lobby that the manager posted a sign asking them to relinquish their seats to paying guests. In beguiling prose and rich character portraits, Charles King brings to life a remarkable era when a storied city stumbled into the modern world and reshaped the meaning of cosmopolitanism., "Intrigue, violence, sex, and espionage, all set against the slow dimmingof Ottoman magnificence. I loved this book."--Simon Winchester At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock. Yet in Istanbul--an ancient crossroads and Turkey's largest city--people were looking toward an uncertain future. Never purely Turkish, Istanbul was home to generations of Greeks, Armenians, and Jews, as well as Muslims. It welcomed White Russian nobles ousted by the Russian Revolution, Bolshevik assassins on the trail of the exiled Leon Trotsky, German professors, British diplomats, and American entrepreneurs--a multicultural panoply of performers and poets, do-gooders and ne'er-do-wells. During the Second World War, thousands of Jews fleeing occupied Europe found passage through Istanbul, some with the help of the future Pope John XXIII. At the Pera Palace, Istanbul's most luxurious hotel, so many spies mingled in the lobby that the manager posted a sign asking them to relinquish their seats to paying guests. In beguiling prose and rich character portraits, Charles King brings to life a remarkable era when a storied city stumbled into the modern world and reshaped the meaning of cosmopolitanism., "Intrigue, violence, sex, and espionage, all set against the slow dimmingof Ottoman magnificence. I loved this book."--Simon Winchester
LC Classification Number
DR731.K56 2014
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