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Hickman, Katie.
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British -- Turkey -- Fiction.
Harems -- Fiction.
Istanbul (Turkey) -- Courts and courtiers -- Fiction.
Istanbul (Turkey) -- Social life and customs -- 16th century -- Fiction.
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Hickman, Katie.
British -- Turkey -- Fiction.
Harems -- Fiction.
Istanbul (Turkey) -- Courts and courtiers -- Fiction.
Istanbul (Turkey) -- Social life and customs -- 16th century -- Fiction.
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The Aviary Gate : a novel / Katie Hickman.
by
Hickman, Katie.
Bloomsbury USA : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, c2008.
Call #:
FICTION
HIC
Subjects
British
--
Turkey
--
Fiction
.
Harems
--
Fiction
.
Istanbul
(
Turkey
)
--
Courts and courtiers
--
Fiction
.
Istanbul
(
Turkey
)
--
Social
life
and
customs
--
16th
century
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9781596914759 (alk. paper)
1596914750 (alk. paper)
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
ix, 340 : map ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"A lush, ancient tale of treacherous secrets, forbidden love, and murder in an Ottoman palace. Elizabeth Staveley sits in the Bodleian library, holding in her trembling hands a fragment of ancient paper. It is the key to a story that has been locked away for four centuries—the story of a British sea captain’s daughter held captive in the sultan’s harem. Constantinople, 1599. There are rumors and strange stirrings in the sultan’s palace. The chief black eunuch has been poisoned by a taste of a beautiful ship made of spun sugar. The sultan’s mother faces threats to her power from her son’s favorite concubine, and a secret rebellion is rising within the palace’s most private quarters. Meanwhile, the merchant Paul Pindar, secretary to the English ambassador, brings a precious gift to the sultan. As he nears the palace, word comes to Pindar that the woman he once loved, Celia, may be alive, and hidden among the ranks of slaves in the sultan’s harem. Can this really be the same Celia who disappeared in a shipwreck? And if it is, can the two be reunited? Spellbinding and steeped in mystery and sexual intrigue, The Aviary Gate transports readers to exotic sixteenth-century Constantinople, offering the rarest glimpse into the forbidden confines of the sultan’s harem."--Publisher description.
Genre:
Historical mystery
fiction
.
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Adult Mystery Fiction
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