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Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Making of Modern Istanbul

Door Charles King

Categorie
Geschiedenis Oost-Europa
Boeknummer
#411030-XU20
Titel
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Making of Modern Istanbul
Auteur
King, Charles
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
New York/London : W. W. Norton & Company
Jaar van uitgave
2015
ISBN10
0393351866
ISBN13
9780393351866
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
The inspiration for the Netflix series premiering March 3rd "Hugely enjoyable, magnificently researched, and deeply absorbing." —Jason Goodwin, New York Times Book Review 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 entrepr... (Lees verder)eneurs—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.
Pagina's
476
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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