The Drowning Guard: A Novel Of The Ottoman Empire,Used

The Drowning Guard: A Novel Of The Ottoman Empire,Used

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Brand: Lake Union Publishing
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A Colorado Book Award winner, Historical Fiction.Each morning in the hour before dawn, a silent boat launches on the Bosphorous, moving swiftly into the deepest part of the waters halfway between Europe and Asia, where a man will dieThe Drowning Guard is the tale of the Ottoman princess, Esma Sultanone of the most powerful women in Ottoman history and unlike any other woman in the Islamic world. In a gender reversal of Scheherazade in 1001 Arabian Nights, Esma seduces a different Christian lover each night, only to have him drowned in the morning. The Sultaness's true passion burns only for the Christianborn soldier charged with carrying out the brutal nightly death sentence: her drowning guard, Ivan Postivich.The Drowning Guard explores the riddle of Esmawho is at once a murderer and a champion and liberator of womenand the man who loves her in spite of her horrifying crimes. This textured historical novel, set in the opulence and squalor of Istanbul in 1826, is woven with the complexity and consequences of love.

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