Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul by King, Charles

Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul

At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For...
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Author: Charles King
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Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul by King, Charles

Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul

€29,21

Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul

€29,21
Author: Charles King
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 entrepreneurs--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.



Author: Charles King
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/02/2015
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780393351866


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 11/29/2015 pg. 24

About the Author
King, Charles: - 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 Washington, DC.

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