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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. "This was in fact the real message of the double-headed eagle as imperial seal: sovereignty over both East and West. The Empire could have been a supreme power uniting, with good will, Europe and Asia; and so many of the world’s geopolitical problems might thus have been averted." ( ) I didn't take to this book, any of the characters in it or the author at all. To me it seemed the author was showing off everything he knew about the Byzantine Empire in an annoying know it all kind of way. I found the main character very unappealing and far too clever for his own good. And what was it with the author appearing as a minor character. One thing that did make me smile was the reference to one of my favourite fictional detectives, Kinsey Milhone. I was just thinking to myself-isn't this the town where Sue Grafton's novels are set?-when up pops the heroine herself. There is a series I do recommend by the way. Sadly not for me. > Par Laurent Lebourg (Le choix des libraires) : Le sultan de Byzance 28/06/2013 ... Un stambouliote aisé, insouciant et féru de poésie, est contacté par une mystérieuse et antique confrérie. Elle lui dévoile comment, lors de la chute de Constantinople en 1453, le dernier empereur Constantin XI n'est pas mort au combat. Il est parti en exil, veillant sur l'avenir de sa dynastie. Surprise de taille, le descendant actuel n'est autre que le narrateur. Un Turc héritier des empereurs byzantins, la littérature aime se jouer de l'histoire ! Sans pour autant baisser la garde, le monarque malgré lui se laisse embarquer dans une aventure méditerranéenne puis américaine. Il doit désormais se réapproprier les hauts lieux délaissés de ses ancêtres dévoilés, tout en enquêtant sur les parts d'ombres de sa famille. Une intrigue érudite dans la veine d'un Umberto Eco où l'on découvre avec surprise comment un écrivain Turc tourne la page des aigreurs héréditaires pour rendre hommage au vaste héritage grec d'Istanbul. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Fighting the Ottoman invaders in Constantinople in 1453, Emperor Constantine XI was killed, his body never found. Legend has it that he escaped in a Genoese ship, cheating certain death at the hands of the Turks and earning himself the title of Immortal Emperor. Five centuries after his disappearance, three mysterious men contact a young professor living in Istanbul. Members of a secret sect, they have guarded the Immortal Emperor’s will for generations. They tell him that he is the next Byzantine emperor and that in order to take possession of his fortune he must carry out his ancestor’s last wishes. The professor embarks on a dangerous journey, taking him to the heart of a mystery of epic historical significance. The Sultan of Byzantium is a symbiosis of story and history and a homage to Byzantine civilisation. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)894.3534Literature Literature of other languages Altaic, Finno-Ugric, Uralic and Dravidian languages Turkic languages Turkish Turkish fiction 2000–Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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