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At the age of thirteen, while travelling home from school in France, Aimee du Buc is kidnapped by Algerian pirates. The graceful young girl is a valuable commodity, and is soon placed in service in the Seraglio (sir-al-ee-o) -- the Ottoman sultan's private world -- in Topkapi Palace. As du Buc discovers the secrets that win the hearts of kings and learns the affairs of the empire, she struggles to retain her former identity, including her Christian faith.
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readers to the menacing yet majestic world of eighteenth-century Turkey, biographer and Middle East expert Janet Wallach brilliantly re-imagines the life of Aimee Dubucq, cousin of Empress Josephine, in her first novel Seraglio.
At the age of thirteen, when en route from France to her home in Martinique, Aimee Dubucq is kidnapped by Algerian pirates. Blonde and blue-eyed, the genteel young girl is a valuable commodity, and she is soon placed in service in the Seraglio - the Ottoman Sultan’s private world - in Topkapi Palace. As Dubucq, renamed Nakshidil ("embroidered on the heart") discovers the erotic secrets that win favor of kings and deftly learns the affairs of the empire, she struggles to retain her former identity, including her Catholic faith. Overtime Nakshidil becomes the intimate of several powerful sultans: wife to one, lover and confidante to another, and adoptive mother to a third. Her life often treads the tenuous line between sumptuous plea
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At the age of thirteen, when en route from France to her home in Martinique, Aimee Dubucq is kidnapped by Algerian pirates. Blonde and blue-eyed, the genteel young girl is a valuable commodity, and she is soon placed in service in the Seraglio - the Ottoman Sultan’s private world - in Topkapi Palace. As Dubucq, renamed Nakshidil ("embroidered on the heart") discovers the erotic secrets that win favor of kings and deftly learns the affairs of the empire, she struggles to retain her former identity, including her Catholic faith. Overtime Nakshidil becomes the intimate of several powerful sultans: wife to one, lover and confidante to another, and adoptive mother to a third. Her life often treads the tenuous line between sumptuous plea
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"Wallach deals superbly with Arab politics and history, unfolding clearly the extraordinary complications that surrounded the corrupt and enfeebled Ottoman Empire..."
-The New Yorker
"Janet Wallach handles the complex politics of the period with ease and authority..."
-San Francisco Chronicle
"In Desert Queen, scholarship and imagination work together. Wallach knows her subject so well that she can recreate the rhythm of Bell’s own zest."
-Chicago Tribune
"[Janet Wallach] is an expert on the region and her knowledge is on full display..."
-New York Times Book Review
"Wallach deals superbly with Arab politics and history, unfolding clearly the extraordinary complications that surrounded the corrupt and enfeebled Ottoman Empire..."
-The New Yorker
"Janet Wallach handles the complex politics of the period with ease and authority..."
-San Francisco Chronicle
"In Desert Queen, scholarship and imagination work together. Wallach knows her subject so well that she can recreate the rhythm of Bell’s own zest."
-Chicago Tribune
"[Janet Wallach] is an expert on the region and her knowledge is on full display..."
-New York Times Book Review
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- PublisherThorndike Press
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0786254246
- ISBN 13 9780786254248
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages404
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