The Architects Apprentice

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The Architects Apprentice is a dazzling and intricate tale from Elif Shafak, bestselling author of The Bastard of Istanbul.

There were six of us: the master, the apprentices and the white elephant. We built everything together...

Sixteenth century Istanbul: a stowaway arrives in the city bearing an extraordinary gift for the Sultan. The boy is utterly alone in a foreign land, with no worldly possessions to his name except Chota, a rare white elephant destined for the palace menagerie.

So begins an epic adventure that will see young Jahan rise from lowly origins to the highest ranks of the Sultans court. Along the way he will meet deceitful courtiers and false friends, gypsies, animal tamers, and the beautiful, mischievous Princess Mihrimah. He will journey on Chotas back to the furthest corners of the Sultans kingdom and back again. And one day he will catch the eye of the royal architect, Sinan, a chance encounter destined to change Jahans fortunes forever.

Filled with all the colour of the Ottoman Empire, when Istanbul was the teeming centre of civilisation, The Architects Apprentice is a magical, sweeping tale of one boy and his elephant caught up in a world of wonder and danger.

Książka "The Architects Apprentice" - Elif Shafak - oprawa miękka - Wydawnictwo Penguin Books Ltd (UK). Książka posiada 456 stron i została wydana w 2015 r.