| Author |
Goodwin, Jason, 1964-
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| Publication |
[Old Saybrook, Conn.] : Tantor Media, 2007.
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| Time |
112212 |
| Description |
digital stereo |
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audio file |
| Call # |
eAUDIO |
| Series |
Yashim the eunuch
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Goodwin, Jason, 1964-
Yashim the eunuch.
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| System Req |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 163415 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
| Performer |
Read by Stephen Hoye. |
| Note |
Duration: 11:22:12. |
| Summary |
The first book in a new series, is set in a most extraordinary world and features a most extraordinary sleuth. It is 1836. Europe is modernizing, and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the sultan announces sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens the fragile balance of power in his court. Who is behind them? Only one intelligence agent can be trusted to find out: Yashim Togalu, a man both brilliant and near-invisible in this world. You see, Yashim is a eunuch. He leads us into the palace's luxurious seraglios and Istanbul's teeming streets, and leans on the wisdom of a dyspeptic Polish ambassador, a transsexual dancer, and a Creole-born queen mother. He finds sweet salvation in the arms of another man's wife (this is not your everyday eunuch). And he introduces us to the Janissaries. For 400 years earlier the sultan had them crushed. Are the Janissaries staging a brutal comeback? |
| Subject |
Eunuchs -- Fiction.
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Police -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Fiction.
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Favorites, Royal -- Fiction.
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Istanbul (Turkey) -- Court and courtiers -- Fiction.
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Istanbul (Turkey) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Audiobooks.
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Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst00821088
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Courts and courtiers. (OCoLC)fst00881829
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Eunuchs. (OCoLC)fst00916500
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Favorites, Royal. (OCoLC)fst00922021
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Police. (OCoLC)fst01068398
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Turkey -- Istanbul. (OCoLC)fst01204833 |
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1800-1899 |
| Genre |
Downloadable audio books. |
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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| Addl. Author |
Hoye, Stephen. Narrator.
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Tantor Media.
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OverDrive, Inc., distributor.
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| Related To |
Original 1400135044 (OCoLC)172689972 |
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