A concubine is strangled in the Sultan's palace harem, and a young cadet is found butchered in the streets of Istanbul. It is up to the eunuch Yashim to delve deep into the city's crooked alleyways, and deeper still into its tumultuous past. Brilliantly evoking Isanbul in the 1830s, "The Janissary Tree" is a bloody, witty and fast-paced literary thriller with a spectacular cast.
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Jason Goodwin es historiador, periodista y escritor de viajes. Ha viajado por Europa del este, Oriente Medio, India y Asia. Su primer libro The Gunpowder Gardens: Travels through India and China in Search of Tea, fue seleccionado para el Thomas Cook Travel Book Awards en 1991, y el segundo, On Foot to the Gonden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul, recibió el John Llewellyn Rhys Prize en 1993.