The Winter Thief: A Kamil Pasha Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels)

The Winter Thief: A Kamil Pasha Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels)
Title The Winter Thief: A Kamil Pasha Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels) PDF eBook
Author Jenny White
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 416
Release 2011-02-21
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780393077957

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"A deftly plotted and clever tale of intrigue, duplicity, and violence."—Booklist, starred review January 1888. Vera Arti carries The Communist Manifesto in Armenian through Istanbul's streets, unaware of the men following her. The police discover a shipload of guns, and the Imperial Ottoman Bank is blown up. Suspicion falls on a socialist commune that Arti's friends organized in the eastern mountains. Investigating, Special Prosecutor Kamil Pasha encounters a ruthless adversary in the secret police who has convinced the Sultan that the commune is leading an Armenian secessionist movement and should be destroyed, along with the surrounding villages. Kamil must stop the massacre, but he finds himself on the wrong side of the law, framed for murder and accused of treason, his family and the woman he loves threatened. The Winter Thief explores the dark obsessions of the most powerful and dangerous men of the dying Ottoman Empire, as well as the era's mad idealism.

The Winter Thief: A Kamil Pasha Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels)

The Winter Thief: A Kamil Pasha Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels)
Title The Winter Thief: A Kamil Pasha Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels) PDF eBook
Author Jenny White
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 401
Release 2011-02-21
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0393077950

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"A deftly plotted and clever tale of intrigue, duplicity, and violence."—Booklist, starred review January 1888. Vera Arti carries The Communist Manifesto in Armenian through Istanbul's streets, unaware of the men following her. The police discover a shipload of guns, and the Imperial Ottoman Bank is blown up. Suspicion falls on a socialist commune that Arti's friends organized in the eastern mountains. Investigating, Special Prosecutor Kamil Pasha encounters a ruthless adversary in the secret police who has convinced the Sultan that the commune is leading an Armenian secessionist movement and should be destroyed, along with the surrounding villages. Kamil must stop the massacre, but he finds himself on the wrong side of the law, framed for murder and accused of treason, his family and the woman he loves threatened. The Winter Thief explores the dark obsessions of the most powerful and dangerous men of the dying Ottoman Empire, as well as the era's mad idealism.

The Winter Thief

The Winter Thief
Title The Winter Thief PDF eBook
Author Jenny White
Publisher National Geographic Books
Pages 0
Release 2011-02-22
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0393338843

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"A deftly plotted and clever tale of intrigue, duplicity, and violence."—Booklist, starred review January 1888. Vera Arti carries The Communist Manifesto in Armenian through Istanbul's streets, unaware of the men following her. The police discover a shipload of guns, and the Imperial Ottoman Bank is blown up. Suspicion falls on a socialist commune that Arti's friends organized in the eastern mountains. Investigating, Special Prosecutor Kamil Pasha encounters a ruthless adversary in the secret police who has convinced the Sultan that the commune is leading an Armenian secessionist movement and should be destroyed, along with the surrounding villages. Kamil must stop the massacre, but he finds himself on the wrong side of the law, framed for murder and accused of treason, his family and the woman he loves threatened. The Winter Thief explores the dark obsessions of the most powerful and dangerous men of the dying Ottoman Empire, as well as the era's mad idealism.

The Sultan's Seal: A Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels)

The Sultan's Seal: A Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels)
Title The Sultan's Seal: A Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels) PDF eBook
Author Jenny White
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 356
Release 2007-02-17
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0393072517

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"A wonderful read…. An historical novel of the highest quality." —Iain Pears Rich in sensuous detail, this first novel brilliantly captures the political and social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Empire. The naked body of a young Englishwoman washes up in Istanbul wearing a pendant inscribed with the seal of the deposed sultan. The death resembles the murder by strangulation of another English governess, a crime that was never solved. Kamil Pasha, a magistrate in the new secular courts, sets out to find the killer, but his dispassionate belief in science and modernity is shaken by betrayal and widening danger. In a lush, mystical voice, a young Muslim woman, Jaanan, recounts her own relationships with one of the dead women and her suspected killer. Were these political murders involving the palace or crimes of personal passion? An absorbing tale that transports the reader to nineteenth-century Turkey, this novel is also a lyrical meditation on the contradictory desires of the human soul. Reading group guide included. Includes the first chapter of the next Kamil Pasha novel.

The Winter Thief: A Kamil Pasha Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels)

The Winter Thief: A Kamil Pasha Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels)
Title The Winter Thief: A Kamil Pasha Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels) PDF eBook
Author Jenny White
Publisher W. W. Norton
Pages 400
Release 2010-03-15
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780393070170

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A bank robbery and illegal weapons lead Kamil Pasha to uncover a plan to massacre an entire valley. January 1888. Vera Arti carries The Communist Manifesto in Armenian through Istanbul’s streets, unaware of the men following her. When the police discover a shipload of guns and the Imperial Ottoman Bank is blown up, suspicion falls on a socialist commune Arti’s friends organized in the eastern mountains. Special Prosecutor Kamil Pasha is called in to investigate. He soon encounters his most ruthless adversary to date: Vahid, head of a special branch of the secret police, who has convinced the sultan that the commune is leading a secessionist movement and should be destroyed—along with surrounding villages. Kamil must stop the massacre, but he finds himself on the wrong side of the law, framed for murder and accused of treason, his family and the woman he loves threatened. Exploring the dark obsessions of the most powerful and dangerous men of the dying Ottoman Empire, The Winter Thief also reflects the mad idealism of those turbulent times.

Read On...History

Read On...History
Title Read On...History PDF eBook
Author Tina Frolund
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 324
Release 2013-10-21
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN

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Make history come alive! This book helps librarians and teachers as well as readers themselves find books they will enjoy—titles that will animate and explain the past, entertain, and expand their minds. This invaluable resource offers reading lists of contemporary and classic non-fiction history books and historical fiction, covering all time periods throughout the world, and including practically all manner of human endeavors. Every book included is hand-selected as an entertaining and enlightening read! Organized by appeal characteristics, this book will help readers zero in on the history books they will like best—for instance, titles that emphasize character, tell a specific type of historical story, convey a mood, or are presented in a particular setting. Every book listed has been recommended based on the author's research, and has proved to be a satisfying and worthwhile read.

Money Makes Us Relatives

Money Makes Us Relatives
Title Money Makes Us Relatives PDF eBook
Author Jenny Barbara White
Publisher Psychology Press
Pages 175
Release 2004
Genre Home labor
ISBN 0415326648

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Money Makes Us Relatives shows how women's work in Turkey is viewed as a poorly-paid extension of domestic family labor, opening up key debates about women's roles in late global capitalism.