Name: Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul (en Inglés)
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Author: Charles King
ISBN: 9780393351866

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Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

W.W. Norton and Company

Autor

Charles King

Año

2015

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

480

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780393351866

N° edición

Categorías

Siglo xx, c. 1900-c. 1999
Historia general y del mundo

Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul (en Inglés)

Charles King (Autor) · W.W. Norton and Company · Tapa Blanda

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“Timely . . . brilliant . . . hugely enjoyable, magnificently researched and deeply absorbing.”―Jason Goodwin, New York Times Book Review 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.In 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. 32 photographs