The Baklava Club
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Author |
: Jason Goodwin |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2014-06-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374294373 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374294372 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Baklava Club by : Jason Goodwin
"Inspector Yashim must search for an Polish prince who has been taken hostage by an Italian revolutionary cell"--Provided by publisher.
Author |
: Jason Goodwin |
Publisher |
: Faber & Faber |
Total Pages |
: 441 |
Release |
: 2014-06-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780571307319 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0571307310 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Baklava Club by : Jason Goodwin
In nineteenth-century Istanbul, a Polish prince has been kidnapped. His assassination has been bungled and his captors have taken him to an unused farmhouse. Little do they realize that their revolutionary cell has been penetrated by their enemies, who use the code name La Piuma (the Feather). Yashim is convinced that the prince is alive. But he has no idea where, or who La Piuma is - and has become dangerously distracted by falling in love. As he draws closer to the prince's whereabouts and to the true identity of La Piuma, Yashim finds himself in the most treacherous situation of his career: can he rescue the prince along with his romantic dreams? Jason Goodwin's bestselling 'Yashim' series has been published across the globe and received huge critical acclaim. In The Baklava Club, Goodwin takes Yashim on an adventure like no other, through the stylish, sensual world of Ottoman Istanbul.
Author |
: Jason Goodwin |
Publisher |
: Sarah Crichton Books |
Total Pages |
: 427 |
Release |
: 2010-03-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429922722 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429922729 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Bellini Card by : Jason Goodwin
Investigator Yashim travels to Venice in the latest installment of the Edgar® Award–winning author Jason Goodwin's captivating historical mystery series Jason Goodwin's first Yashim mystery, The Janissary Tree, brought home the Edgar® Award for Best Novel. His follow-up, The Snake Stone, more than lived up to expectations and was hailed by Marilyn Stasio in The New York Times Book Review as "a magic carpet ride to the most exotic place on earth." Now, in The Bellini Card, Jason Goodwin takes us back into his "intelligent, gorgeous and evocative" (The Independent on Sunday) world, as dazzling as a hall of mirrors and utterly compelling. Istanbul, 1840: the new sultan, Abdülmecid, has heard a rumor that Bellini's vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. Yashim, our eunuch detective, is promptly asked to investigate, but -- aware that the sultan's advisers are against any extravagant repurchase of the painting -- decides to deploy his disempowered Polish ambassador friend, Palewski, to visit Venice in his stead. Palewski arrives in disguise in down-and-out Venice, where a killer is at large as dealers, faded aristocrats, and other unknown factions seek to uncover the whereabouts of the missing Bellini. But is it the Bellini itself that endangers all, or something associated with its original loss? And why is it that all the killer's victims are somehow tied to the alluring Contessa d'Aspi d'Istria? Will the Austrians unmask Palewski, or will the killer find him first? Only Yashim can uncover the truth behind the manifold mysteries.
Author |
: Jason Goodwin |
Publisher |
: Faber & Faber |
Total Pages |
: 318 |
Release |
: 2010-12-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780571267507 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0571267505 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Snake Stone by : Jason Goodwin
Lefèvre, a French archaeologist, has arrived in Istanbul determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure. Yashim is commissioned to find out more about him. But when Lefèvre's mutilated body is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out that there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. Once again, Yashim finds himself in a race against time to find the startling truth behind a shadowy secret society dedicated to the revival of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a deadly game deep beneath the city streets, a place where the stakes are high - and betrayal is death.
Author |
: Diana Abu-Jaber |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2007-12-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307428837 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307428834 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Language of Baklava by : Diana Abu-Jaber
Diana Abu-Jaber’s vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together delicious food memories that illuminate the two cultures of her childhood—American and Jordanian. Here are stories of being raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father and tales of Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts and goat stew feasts under Bedouin tents in the desert. These sensuously evoked repasts, complete with recipes, paint a loving and complex portrait of Diana’s impractical, displaced immigrant father who, like many an immigrant before him, cooked to remember the place he came from and to pass that connection on to his children. The Language of Baklava irresistibly invites us to sit down at the table with Diana’s family, sharing unforgettable meals that turn out to be as much about “grace, difference, faith, love” as they are about food.
Author |
: Jason Goodwin |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 430 |
Release |
: 2014-06-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781466874879 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1466874872 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lords of the Horizons by : Jason Goodwin
"A work of dazzling beauty...the rare coming together of historical scholarship and curiosity about distant places with luminous writing." --The New York Times Book Review Since the Turks first shattered the glory of the French crusaders in 1396, the Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds. For six hundred years, the Empire swelled and declined. Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, in three centuries it advanced from the dusty foothills of Anatolia to rule on the Danube and the Nile; at the Empire's height, Indian rajahs and the kings of France beseeched its aid. For the next three hundred years the Empire seemed ready to collapse, a prodigy of survival and decay. Early in the twentieth century it fell. In this dazzling evocation of its power, Jason Goodwin explores how the Ottomans rose and how, against all odds, they lingered on. In the process he unfolds a sequence of mysteries, triumphs, treasures, and terrors unknown to most American readers. This was a place where pillows spoke and birds were fed in the snow; where time itself unfolded at a different rate and clocks were banned; where sounds were different, and even the hyacinths too strong to sniff. Dramatic and passionate, comic and gruesome, Lords of the Horizons is a history, a travel book, and a vision of a lost world all in one.
Author |
: Jason Goodwin |
Publisher |
: Faber & Faber |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2010-12-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780571267491 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0571267491 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Janissary Tree by : Jason Goodwin
Yashim is no ordinary detective. It's not that he's particularly brave. Or that he cooks so well, or reads French novels. Not even that his best friend is the Ambassador from Poland, whose country has vanished from the map. Yashim is a eunuch. As the Sultan plans a series of radical reforms to his empire, a concubine is strangled in the palace harem. And a young cadet is found butchered in the streets of Istanbul. Delving deep into the city's crooked alleyways, and deeper still into its tumultuous past, Yashim discovers that some people will go to any lengths to preserve the traditions of the Ottoman Empire. Brilliantly evoking Istanbul in the 1830s, The Ottoman Detective is a fast-paced literary thriller with a spectacular cast, from mystic orders and lissom archivists to soup-makers and a seductive ambassador's wife. Darker than any of these is the mysterious figure who controls the Sultan's harem.
Author |
: Jason Goodwin |
Publisher |
: Sarah Crichton Books |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 2011-03-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429958875 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429958871 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Evil Eye by : Jason Goodwin
From the Edgar® Award–winning author of The Janissary Tree comes the fourth and most captivating Investigator Yashim mystery yet! It takes a writer of prodigious talents to conjure the Istanbul of the Ottoman Empire in all its majesty. In three previous novels, Jason Goodwin has taken us on stylish, suspenseful, and vibrant excursions into its exotic territory. Now, in An Evil Eye, the mystery of Istanbul runs deeper than ever before. It's 1839, and the admiral of the Ottoman fleet has defected to the Egyptians. It's up to the intrepid Investigator Yashim to uncover the man's motives. Of course, Fevzi Ahmet is no stranger to Yashim—it was Fevzi who taught the investigator his craft years ago. He's the only man whom Yashim has ever truly feared: ruthless, cruel, and unswervingly loyal to the sultan. So what could have led Yashim's former mentor to betray the Ottoman Empire? Yashim's search draws him into the sultan's seraglio, a well-appointed world with an undercurrent of fear, ambition, and deep-seated superstition. When the women of the sultan's orchestra begin inexplicably to grow ill and die, Yashim discovers that the admiral's defection may be rooted somewhere in the torturous strictures of the sultan's harem. No one knows more about the Ottoman Empire and Istanbul than Jason Goodwin, of whom Janet Maslin wrote in The New York Times: "Mr. Goodwin uses rich historical detail to elevate the books in this series . . . far above the realm of everyday sleuthing."
Author |
: Jason Goodwin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016-10-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0957254016 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780957254015 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Yashim Cooks Istanbul by : Jason Goodwin
"Inspired by Jason Goodwin's bestselling mystery novels, Yashim Cooks Istanbul evokes the colors and flavours of the Ottoman world, with recipes from simple meze and vegetable dishes to meat, fish, and puddings."--Back cover.
Author |
: Priscilla Mary Isin |
Publisher |
: Reaktion Books |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2018-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781780239040 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1780239041 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bountiful Empire by : Priscilla Mary Isin
This meticulously researched, beautiful volume offers fresh and lively insight into an empire and cuisine that until recent decades has been too narrowly viewed through orientalist spectacles. The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lasting empires in history—and one of the most culinarily inclined. In this powerful and complex concoction of politics, culture, and cuisine, the production and consumption of food reflected the lives of the empire’s citizens from sultans to soldiers. Food bound people of different classes and backgrounds together, defining identity and serving symbolic functions in the social, religious, political, and military spheres. In Bountiful Empire, Priscilla Mary Işın examines the changing meanings of the Ottoman Empire’s foodways as they evolved over more than five centuries. Işın begins with the essential ingredients of this fascinating history, examining the earlier culinary traditions in which Ottoman cuisine was rooted, such as those of the Central Asian Turks, Abbasids, Seljuks, and Byzantines. She goes on to explore the diverse aspects of this rich culinary culture, including etiquette, cooks, restaurants, military food, food laws, and food trade. The book draws on everything from archival documents to poetry and features more than one hundred delectable illustrations.