The delights of Turkey
Subtitle: twenty tales
By: Edouard Roditi.
Publisher: New Directions Pub. Corp.
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Table of contents: title: A city built on seven hills: The magic carpet. An ailment that spread fast and far. The ghost Popo. The boulissa's pilgrimage. The imprisoned princess.; title: The chronicles of Bok Köy: Kurd Hikmet's harem. Introducing Achmet Hodja. How the office of eunuch of the bathrobe became hereditary. Why Napoleon erected the obelisk in the center of his Capital. The turd that was as big as a house.; title: Orient express: Mademoiselle Blanche. A patriotic girl. The sultan's little harum-scarum. A meek wolf among savage lambs. The angel of death.; title: The eternal and ubiquitous city: A man of education and culture. The ghost with an American passport. A night of love. Three faiths, one God. The vampires of Istanbul.