Midnight at the Pera Palace the birth of modern Istanbul
"When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, so many spies mingled in the lobby of Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel that the manager posted a sign asking them to relinquish seats to paying guests. As the multi-ethnic empire became a Turkish republic, Russian émigrés sold family heirlooms, an African American i...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton and Company,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Maps
- Author's note
- Prologue
- Grand hotel
- The gray fleet
- Occupation
- Resistance
- Moscow on the Bosphorus
- Konstantinoupolis
- "The post-war world was jazzing"
- "The past is a wound in my heart"
- Modern times
- Beyond the veil
- Living like a squirrel
- Island life
- Queen
- Holy wisdom
- Shadow wars
- Paper trails
- At the Gate of Felicity
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Chronology.
