Jason Goodwin's Edgar Award–winning series set in Istanbul at the end of the Ottoman Empire--The Janissary Tree, The Snake Stone, The Bellini Card, and An Evil Eye--features Investigator Yashim: detective, polyglot, chef, eunuch.
For the Guardian, he named a top ten list of books on Turkey.
One title on the list:
Snow by Orhan PamukRead about the other books on the list.
Complex, fragmentary, unreliable and poetic, this thoroughly postmodern novel abounds with puns, ironies, double-takes and imponderable conflicts of love, faith and social justice, reflecting not only aspects of the human condition but also of 20th-century Turkey's preoccupations with secularism, religious freedom and revolution. In the city of Kars, a young journalist, Ka, comes to investigate a spate of suicides relating to the wearing of headscarves – and opens up a kaleidoscopic world of claims, counter-claims and conflicting priorities.
Learn more about Jason Goodwin and his work at his website.
The Page 69 Test: The Snake Stone.
The Page 69 Test: The Bellini Card.
My Book, The Movie: An Evil Eye.
--Marshal Zeringue
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