The Lion House

The Coming of a King

The Lion House
Christopher de Bellaigue
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 304pg
8 Nov 2022
International import eta 7-19 days
9780374279189
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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 for LiteratureNarrated 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 dealer who acts as his go-between, the Russian consort who becomes his most beloved wife. Within a decade and a half, Suleyman held dominion over twenty-five million souls, from Baghdad to the walls of Vienna, and with the help of his brilliant pirate commander Barbarossa placed more Christians than ever before or since under Muslim rule. And yet the real drama takes place in close-up: in small rooms and whispered conversations, behind the curtain of power, where the sultan sleeps head to toe with his best friend and eats from wooden spoons with his baby boy. In The Lion House, Christopher de Bellaigue tells not just the story of rival superpowers in an existential duel, nor of one of the most consequential lives in human history, but of what it means to live in a time when a few men get to decide the fate of the world.
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 for LiteraturePoised effortlessly between two worlds and two ages, as at home in Istanbul as in the chambers of Venice, alert to every nuance of costume and gesture which is the key to imperial power, de Bellaigue brings you into councils and banquets, through sieges and bedrooms in a book as pungent and mysterious as the age it depicts --Rory Stewart, former British Cabinet Minister and Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University"There are books that enlarge the mind, there are books that enrich the soul, but rarely comes a book so beautifully-written and profound that it manages to do both. " --Elif Shafak, author of The Bastard of Istanbul "The Ottoman Empire at the very height of its power and glory, narrated with a verve and flair that makes the characters burst from the pages. Outstanding history and an incredibly good read. " --Eugene Rogan, author of The Fall of the Ottomans "Once you open The Lion House a historical universe is presented to the reader that captivates and astonishes. Christopher de Bellaigue writes with brilliance and The Lion House is near-impossible to put down. It is a superb example of historical literature and research, opening a vista upon Suleyman' s ascent, one of the most significant in world history. " --Richard Whatmore, Professor of Modern History at University of St. Andrews "A galloping, vivid present-tense narrative that brings stunningly to life the scale of Suleyman' s quest for world domination. Non-fiction with the readability of a thriller. Unputdownable. " --Victoria Hislop, author of The Island "Riveting, beautifully written and expertly told. De Bellaigue is a wonderful guide to the story of Suleyman' s quest for power and the rise of the Ottomans in a rapidly changing world. " --Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads, A New History of the World "Sensuous and scholarly, meticulously researched and deliciously irreverent, The Lion House is an intoxicating journey through the Ottomans' golden age. " --Amberin Zaman, former Turkey bureau chief of the Economist and Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center "De Bellaigue guides us through the labyrinths of statecraft and private passions of the Ottoman court, the Doge' s palace and the geographies in between and beyond. The Lion House is full of breath-taking events at the cross-roads of empires happening at a moment in history when notions such as Europe, Asia, Christianity and Islam were infinitely more fluid and permeable than they are today. " --Kerem Oktem, Professor of International Relations at Ca' Foscari University, Venice
Christopher de Bellaigue is a historian, linguist, and multidisciplinary writer and journalist with expertise in Islamic worlds. He read Iranian and Indian studies at Cambridge University and then spent twelve years reporting from South Asia and the Middle East. His writing has appeared in The Economist, The Guardian, and The New York Review of Books. He has reported from Kabul on the invasion of Afghanistan for the London Review of Books and lectured in Tehran (in Farsi) on the work of Orhan Pamuk. He is the award-winning author of five books, including The Islamic Enlightenment, which was short-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2017. He has also made several television and radio programs for the BBC
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780374279189
Published: 8 Nov 2022
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Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
Pages: 304

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