Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of .

Synopsis: "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 Re public celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock. Yet in Istanbulan ancient crossroads and Turkey's largest city 15;people were looking toward an uncertain future. Never purely Turkish, Is tanbul was home to generations of Greeks, Armenians, and Jews, as well as M uslims. It welcomed White Russian nobles ousted by the Russian Revolution, Bolshevik assassins on the trail of the exiled Leon Trotsky, German profess ors, British diplomats, and American entrepreneursa multicultural p anoply of performers and poets, do-gooders and ne'er-do-wells. During the S econd World War, thousands of Jews fleeing occupied Europe found passage th rough Istanbul, some with the help of the future Pope John XXIII. At the Pe ra Palace, Istanbul's most luxurious hotel, so many spies mingled in the lo bby 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 lif e a remarkable era when a storied city stumbled into the modern world and r eshaped the meaning of cosmopolitanism. 32 photographs About the Author: Charles King is a professor of international affairs and government at Georgetown University. A frequent media commentator on global issues, he is the author of Gods of the Upper Air, Odessa, Midnight in the Pera Palace, and other books. He lives in Washin.

Product Info

ISBN: 0393351866

ISBN-13: 9780393351866

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Year: 2015

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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