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Kamil Pasja Reeks

Stap in de wereld van een toegewijde magistraat die de complexiteit van rechtvaardigheid navigeert binnen het magnifieke Ottomaanse Rijk. Deze serie dompelt je onder in de politieke intriges en sociale dynamiek van Istanbul tijdens een cruciaal tijdperk. Ervaar meeslepende verhalen over wet, orde en de persoonlijke dilemma's van een man die zich toelegt op het nakomen van zijn plichten. Het is een boeiende reis door historische rechtbanken en de zoektocht naar waarheid.

Het Abessijner bewijs / druk 1
The Sultan's Seal

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  1. The Sultan's Seal

    • 401bladzijden
    • 15 uur lezen

    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 Sultan's Seal1
    3,4

  2. Het Abessijner bewijs / druk 1

    • 461bladzijden
    • 17 uur lezen

    "An immensely enjoyable read, richly textured and wonderfully atmospheric."—Sarah Graves Constantinople, May 1453. In the dying days of the Byzantine Empire, Isaak Metochites and his family are entrusted with a silver reliquary carved with the figure of a weeping angel and the inscription: Behold the Proof of Chora, Container of the Uncontainable . Four hundred years later, magistrate Kamil Pasha is plagued by thefts of antiquities from mosques and churches and a series of murders in which the bodies bear the same distinctive mark. Sources lead Kamil to a hidden sect descended from Abyssinian slaves living in an abandoned cistern in Istanbul's gritty underworld. The reemergence of the forgotten reliquary sets off a brutal race between those sworn to protect it and those who will stop at nothing to gain its explosive secret.

    Het Abessijner bewijs / druk 12
    2,0