Results for: books tagged ‘Turkey’
Constantinople: Roger Crowley
In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium. During the siege that followed, ... More
Other Colours: Orhan Pamuk
From Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, comes a personal selection of the best from twenty-five years’ work. His original pieces have been sympathetically revisited by ... More
Snow: Orhan Pamuk
The year is 1992. Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to write an investigative piece about troubling events in the small and mysterious ... More
My Name is Red: Orhan Pamuk
A modern classic. Orhan Pamuk's historical whodunnit, set in the court of a 16th-century Sultan. Complete and unabridged. More