Als sich Jahan Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts auf den Weg nach Istanbul macht, um dem Sultan einen weißen Elefanten zu schenken, ahnt er nicht, was für ein großes Abenteuer ihn erwartet. Denn bald wird er nicht nur die schöne Prinzessin Mihrimah kennenlernen, sondern auch bei einem der berühmtesten Architekten der Zeit in die Lehre gehen. A sweeping, magical novel from Elif Shafak set in 16th-century Istanbul, bursting with colour, romance and white elephants. Her most captivating novel to date.

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Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist, whose work has been translated into fifty-eight languages. The author of twenty books, thirteen of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak's novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize. The Island of Missing Trees was a Sunday Times bestseller, and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction. There are Rivers in the Sky, which won an Edward Stanford Award for Fiction, is her latest novel.

Shafak holds a PhD in political science, and is a Fellow and a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature. She has been awarded the medal of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and, in 2024, was awarded the British Academy President's Medal for 'her excellent body of work which demonstrates an incredible intercultural range'.