Yashim is no ordinary detective. Yashim is a eunuch. A concubine is strangled in the Sultan's palace harem, and a young cadet is found butchered in the streets of Istanbul. Delving deep into the city's crooked alleyways, and deeper still into its tumultuous past, Yashim discovers that some people will go to any lengths to preserve the traditions of the Ottoman Empire. Brilliantly evoking Istanbul in the 1830s, "The Janissary Tree" is a bloody, witty and fast-paced literary thriller with a spectacular cast.
- ISBN10 0571229239
- ISBN13 9780571229239
- Publish Date 4 January 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 January 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Edition open market ed
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 352
- Language English