HarperCollins
September 2011
On Sale: August 30, 2011
Featuring: Eleonora Cohen; Sultan Abdulhamid II
320 pages ISBN: 006201210X EAN: 9780062012104 Paperback Add to Wish List
Ushered into the world by a mysterious pair of Tartar midwives late in the summer of 1877 in the town of Constanta on the Black Sea, Eleonora Cohen proves herself an extraordinarily gifted childβa prodigyβat a very young age. When she is eight years old, she stows away aboard a ship, following her carpet merchant father, Yakob, to the teeming and colorful imperial capital of Stamboul where a new life awaits her.
In the narrow streets of this city at the crossroads of the world, intrigue and gossip are currency, and people are not always what they seem. But it is only when she charms the eccentric Sultan Abdulhamid IIβbeleaguered by friend and foe as his unwieldy realm crumblesβthat Eleonora will change the course of an empire.
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