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The Lion House: The Coming of a King
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Christopher de Bellaigue chronicles the rise of Suleyman the Magnificent, the sixteenth-century sultan of the Ottoman Empire, in this exhilarating true story that unfolds like a novel.
“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 him: the Greek slave who becomes his Grand Vizier, the Venetian jewel...