The Oracle of Stamboul

Lukas, Michael David

ISBN 10: 0755377699 / ISBN 13: 9780755377695

Published by Headline Review, 2011

About this Item

Hardback 1st ed 1st printing. 306 pp Both book and dust jacket are in very good condition. The book is signed by the author on the title page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Oracle of Stamboul
• Publisher: Headline Review
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0755377699
• ISBN 13: 9780755377695
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

A magical historical novel about an astonishing eight year old girl in the last days of the Ottoman Empire.

It is 1877, on the shores of the Black Sea, and the omens for the newborn Eleanora Cohen are hardly promising. Not only does her mother die in childbirth, but her village is being attacked by the Tsar's Royal Cavalry. However, despite this bad beginning, a sour stepmother and a traumatic journey in the hold of a ship, young Eleanora grows into a remarkably clever but very engaging child. And when a heartbreaking tragedy leaves her marooned in Istanbul, where spies and boarded-up harems and sudden death are as much a part of life as delicious spices, Paris fashions and rosewater, it is Eleanora's extraordinary courage and character which lead her straight to the Sultan’s court, and to her salvation.

About the Author

Michael David Lukas was born in 1979 and lives in California, where he teaches primary-school children Creative Writing and writes travel journalism.  This is his first novel.