Jason Goodwin

Charged by the Sultan to find a stolen painting by Bellini, Yashim the detective enlists the help of his friend Palewski, the Polish Ambassador, and goes undercover. Venice in 1840 is a city of empty palazzos and silent canals, and Palewski starts to mingle with Venetian dealers - but when two bodies turn up in the canal, he realises that art in Venice is a deadly business, and it is up to Yashim to attempt to rescue his intrepid friend from forces bigger than they had ever imagined . . .

Yashim is no ordinary detective. Its not that hes particularly brave. Or that he cooks so well, or reads French novels. Not even that his best friend is the Ambassador from Poland, whose country has vanished from the map. Yashim is a eunuch. As the Sultan plans a series of radical reforms to his empire, a concubine is strangled in the palace harem. And a young cadet is found butchered in the streets of Istanbul. Delving deep into the citys 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 Ottoman Detective is a fast-paced literary thriller with a spectacular cast, from mystic orders and lissom archivists to soup-makers and a seductive ambassadors wife. Darker than any of these is the mysterious figure who controls the Sultans harem.

In nineteenth-century Istanbul, a Polish prince has been kidnapped. His assassination has been bungled and his captors have taken him to an unused farmhouse. Little do they realize that their revolutionary cell has been penetrated by their enemies, who use the code name La Piuma (the Feather).Yashim is convinced that the prince is alive. But he has no idea where, or who La Piuma is - and has become dangerously distracted by falling in love. As he draws closer to the princes whereabouts and to the true identity of La Piuma, Yashim finds himself in the most treacherous situation of his career: can he rescue the prince along with his romantic dreams?Jason Goodwins bestselling Yashim series has been published across the globe and received huge critical acclaim. In The Baklava Club, Goodwin takes Yashim on an adventure like no other, through the stylish, sensual world of Ottoman Istanbul.

A Istanbul, el nou sulta demana a en Yashim Togalu, un dels antics homes de confiança del seu pare, que investigui un rumor: es diu que a Venecia ha aparegut el retrat del sulta Mehmet el Conqueridor, pintat per Bellini. Com que l’Alcora prohibeix la representacio de figures humanes, el sulta no vol que el retrat estigui exposat a les mirades dels infidels ni que continu a les seves mans. Assistim aixi al grandios espectacle de La Serenissima: des de la Venecia de postal, amb les elegants festes dels seus nobles, els carnavals i les regates, els palaus d’arquitectura capriciosa i els gondolers que canten cançons d’amor mentre remen pels canals... a la ciutat esquerpa, bruta i tenebrosa dels barris pobres, on la gent humil intenta guanyar-se la vida com pot i alguns personatges malintencionats dediquen tots els seus esforços a aprofitar-se dels altres. Qui tiba els fils de tota la intriga on s’acabaran trobant immersos Yashim i el seu company Palewski? Quin patro segueix la inquietant cadena d’esdeveniments que succeeixen? Que amaga la bella comtessa d’Aspi d’Istria? Qui es qui en aquesta trepidant partida?

Charged by the Sultan to find a stolen painting by Bellini, Yashim the detective enlists the help of his friend Palewski, the Polish Ambassador, and goes undercover. Venice in 1840 is a city of empty palazzos and silent canals, and Palewski starts to mingle with Venetian dealers - but when two bodies turn up in the canal, he realises that art in Venice is a deadly business, and it is up to Yashim to attempt to rescue his intrepid friend from forces bigger than they had ever imagined...

"E se il Santo Graal, l''antica reliquia, fosse custodito nei labirinti di pietra, nelle cisterne bizantine sotto i palazzi di Istanbul? Il sultano Mahmut II sta morendo. Yashim, piu che mai solo, deve combattere contro un incubo che sembra risvegliarsi da un passato antichissimo. 1839, anni dopo la lotta per l''indipendenza dei greci dell''impero ottomano, Lefevre, archeologo francese, arriva a Istanbul per cercare un tesoro bizantino che ha a che fare con le reliquie piu antiche della citta, e forse della cristianita. Yashim, l''eunuco di corte che ama le donne, riceve la richiesta di investigare su Lefevre. Ma quando il cadavere sfigurato dell''archeologo viene trovato davanti all''ambasciata francese, tutto porta a sospettare dello stesso Yashim... C''e qualcuno che lo sta usando per coprire un complotto, o la realta e ancora piu sorprendente? "

"1840: un ritratto simbolo dell''antica grandezza ottomana, scomparso da Istanbul quattro secoli prima, riappare misteriosamente a Venezia. Il sultano lo pretende. E Yashim in missione nella agonizzante ex Serenissima, scopre che il dipinto leggendario semina morte, suscita amori, dissolve ricchezze favolose. E la ricerca dell''eunuco detective si trasforma in un oscuro gioco del gatto col topo, che minaccia di distruggere piu di un trono in Europa. Con il fido Palewski. Yashim si aggira in una Venezia spettrale e oppressa dal giogo della dominazione autriaca. Due cadaveri che appaiono nella melma dei canali fanno subito capire che la partita non sara ne semplice, ne incruenta. Tra gli echi di Istanbul che risuonano in tutta la laguna - un palazzo che ospitava un caravanserraglio, dimore fatiscenti che celano tesori -, niente e come sembra, tutto rimanda a un disegno nascosto che muta di continuo, intrecciando presente e passato, finzione e realta. Il ritratto di Maometto il Conquistatore di Gentile Bellini (o ""attribuito a"" come dicono prudentemente gli esperti), al centro di questo romanzo, non e invenzione. È un dipinto famoso oggi custodito alla National Gallery di Londra. Le peripezie storiche del dipinto sono ricostruite da Goodwin in una divertente Appendice al romanzo. "

"1830, complotto a Istanbul. Una serie di omicidi costringe Yashim ad abbandonare le amate letture, l''adorata cucina: dovra diventare detective. Nelle sue investigazioni Yashim frequenta ambasciate e diplomatici, si reca da guide e corporazioni, coltiva l''ambiente dei danzatori eunuchi, gruppo di magnifici travestiti di cui fa parte un''amica informatrice che fara una brutta fine. Le sue indagini sembrano condurre ai Giannizzeri, il potente corpo d''elite ottomano, per secoli considerata la fanteria piu efficiente e feroce del mondo. Nel frattempo una serie di incendi minaccia la citta, e poiche i Giannizzeri sono anche i pompieri della capitale tutto sembra preparare il loro minaccioso ritorno... "

Istanbul, any 1836. Europa esta en vies de modernitzar-se i lImperi otoma es veu obligat a seguir-ne exemple. Tanmateix, just en el moment en que el sulta planifica una serie de reformes radicals per evitar lenrunament de lImperi, quatre assassinats amenacen el delicat equilibri de poder a la cort. Nomes Yashim Togalu, un insolit investigador, es capaç de descobrir-ne els autors. Home brillant, amant de la cuina i de les novelles franceses, te la rara qualitat de passar desapercebut fins i tot en lintrigant i delicat ambient de lharem, ja que... es un eunuc. Endinsant-se en els carrerons estrets i tortuosos de la ciutat, flairant-ne les olors, i encara mes en el seu passat tumultuos, Yashim descobreix que algunes persones estan disposades a fer el que calgui per preservar les tradicions de lImperi otoma. Escrit amb una prosa agil i una enginyosa tecnica narrativa, Larbre dels genissers presenta un extraordinari elenc de personatges, que, envoltats de sensualitat i decadencia, experimenten perilloses intrigues politiques i personals. Pero els mes foscos de tots plegats son els genissers, que durant quatre-cents anys van ser els soldats delit de lImperi, pero quan el seu poder va ser massa gran els van eliminar. Amb aquesta obra Goodwin crea el personatge detectivesc Yashim Togalu, que te continuitat en la seva nova obra apareguda recentment i adquirida tambe per Edicions de 1984.

Estambul, 1838. Mientras el sultán Mahmud II agoniza en su palacio sobre el Bósforo, la comunidad griega anda misteriosamente inquieta y rumores de conspiración se propagan por las esquinas. Entre el tumulto, Maximilian Lefevre, un misterioso arqueologo frances, llega a la ciudad de la Sublime Puerta en busca de un tesoro bizantino perdido. Yashim, un celebre detective eunuco conocido por su astucia y exquisito gusto, debe custodiar al recien llegado. Pero pronto el cuerpo de Lefevre aparece mutilado, y Yashim se convierte en el principal sospechoso del macabro asesinato. Un enigma se oculta tras las exoticas calles de Estambul, y Yashim solo podra demostrar su inocencia resolviendolo.

Lefevre, a French archaeologist, has arrived in Istanbul determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure. Yashim is commissioned to find out more about him. But when Lefevres mutilated body is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out that there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. Once again, Yashim finds himself in a race against time to find the startling truth behind a shadowy secret society dedicated to the revival of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a deadly game deep beneath the city streets, a place where the stakes are high - and betrayal is death.

Lefevre, a French archaeologist, has arrived in Istanbul determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure. Yashim is commissioned to find out more about him. But when Lefevre''s mutilated body is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out that there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. Once again, Yashim finds himself in a race against time to uncover the startling truth behind a shadowy secret society dedicated to the revival of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a deadly game deep beneath the city streets, a place where the stakes are high - and betrayal is death. The sequel to The Janissary Tree.

Lefevre, a French archaeologist, has arrived in Istanbul determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure. Yashim is commissioned to find out more about him. But when Lefevres mutilated body is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out that there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. Once again, Yashim finds himself in a race against time to find the startling truth behind a shadowy secret society dedicated to the revival of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a deadly game deep beneath the city streets, a place where the stakes are high - and betrayal is death.

Istanbul, 1838. El sultà Mahmut II, artífex de la reforma otomana, agonitza al seu palau a la riba del Bosfor, i la ciutat es neguiteja plena de rumors i de temors. La inesperada arribada d’un arqueo

A concubine is strangled in the Sultan's palace harem, and a young cadet is found butchered in the streets of Istanbul. It is up to the eunuch Yashim to delve deep into the city's crooked alleyways, and deeper still into its tumultuous past. Brilliantly evoking Isanbul in the 1830s, "The Janissary Tree" is a bloody, witty and fast-paced literary thriller with a spectacular cast.

Europa es modernitza a marxes forçades ilImperi otoma no pot quedar-se enrere. Pero quan el sulta planifica una serie de reformes radicals, quatre assassinats amenacen lequilibri de poder a la cort. Nomes Yashim Togalu es capaç de descobrir-ne els autors. Home brillant, aficionat a la cuina i a les novel·les franceses, te la rara qualitat de passar desapercebut fins i tot en un harem: aquest investigador insolit es un eunuc.

Rival de España durante siglos por la hegemonía en el Mediterráneo y tan mentado como poco conocido, el Imperio otomano llegó a extenderse desde Arabia hasta el Danubio y desde el mar Negro hasta el Magreb. Dentro de sus fronteras convivieron pueblos de cultura muy diferente griegos, albaneses, kurdos, tartaros, arabes que conservaron sus caracteristicas definitorias. Todos ellos, con sus tradiciones, costumbres y supersticiones, desfilan por esta obra de Jason Goodwin compartiendo paginas con la magnificencia de Soliman el Magnifico, la pulcritud de la burocracia otomana, el terror que sus ejercitos provocaban entre sus enemigos, las extravagancias de los jenizaros y de no pocos sultanes, las intrigas del serrallo, el desarrollo de ciudades como Salonica centro destacado de la comunidad sefardi, Sarajevo, Belgrado, Ragusa y, por supuesto, Estambul, en una panoramica historica completa del mosaico etnico, cultural y religioso que fue el dominio de Los señores del horizonte.

Rival del España durante siglos por la hegemonía en el Mediterráneo y tan mentado como poco conocido, el Imperio otomano llegó a extenderse desde Arabia hasta el Danubio y desde el Mar Negro hasta el Magreb. Dentro de sus fronteras convivieron pueblos de cultura muy diferente -griegos, albaneses, kurdos, tartaros, arabes...- que conservaron sus caracteristicas definitorias. Todos ellos, con sus tradiciones, costumbres y supersticiones, desfilan por esta obra de Jason Goodwin compartiendo paginas con la magnificencia de Soliman el Magnifico, la pulcritud de la burocracia otomana, el terror que sus ejercitos provocaban entre sus enemigos, las extravagancias de los jenizaros y de no pocos sultanes, las intrigas del serrallo, el desarrollo de ciudades como Salonica -centro destacado de la comunidad sefardi- Sarajevo, Belgrado, Ragusa y, por supuesto, Estambul, en una panoramica historica completa del mosaico etnico, cultural y religioso que fue el dominio de Los Señores del Horizonte.