The Lion House: The Coming of a King

by Christopher de Bellaigue

Book Overview

"Christopher de Bellaigue has a magic talent for writing history. It is as if we are there as the era of Suleyman the Magnificent unfolds." --Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Narrated through the eyes of the intimates of Suleyman the Magnificent, the sixteenth-century sultan of the Ottoman Empire, The Lion House animates with stunning immediacy the fears and stratagems of those brought into orbit around...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374279187
• ISBN13: 9780374279189
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 8.2"