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The Sultan of Byzantium

By Selçuk Altun, Clifford Endres (Translator), Selhan Endres (Translator)
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By Selçuk Altun, Clifford Endres (Translator), Selhan Endres (Translator)
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"Altun's prose has a dreamlike urgency"—John Ashbery

Fighting the Ottoman invaders in Constantinople, Emperor Constantine XI was killed—his body never found.

Legend has it that he escaped in a Genoese ship, cheating certain death at the hands of the Turks and earning himself the title of Immortal Emperor.

Five centuries after his disappearance, three mysterious men contact a young professor living in Istanbul. Members of a secret sect, they have guarded the Immortal Emperor's will for generati...

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