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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.With 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."
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"Timely...brilliant...hugely enjoyable, magnificently researched and deeply absorbing." --The New York Times Book Review
"The excellent and timely Midnight at the Pera Palace...[offers] a fascinating take on the period and the characters that passed through the city..." --Cornucopia
"A superb portrait of interwar Istanbul...It succeeds brilliantly in portraying the eclipsed city in the Twenties and Thirties, when bars, jazz clubs and brothels all proliferated." --Sunday Telegraph
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"The excellent and timely Midnight at the Pera Palace...[offers] a fascinating take on the period and the characters that passed through the city..." --Cornucopia
"A superb portrait of interwar Istanbul...It succeeds brilliantly in portraying the eclipsed city in the Twenties and Thirties, when bars, jazz clubs and brothels all proliferated." --Sunday Telegraph
Charles King is a professor of international affairs at Georgetown University. A frequent media commentator on global issues, he is the author of Odessa, Midnight in the Pera Palace, and other books. He lives in Washington, DC.
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- PublisherBlackstone Pub
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1483049418
- ISBN 13 9781483049410
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