The architect's apprentice
Subtitle: a novel
By: Elif Shafak
Edition: Large Print edition.
Series: Center Point Large Print edition
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Thorndike, Maine
Language: eng
Number of pages: 678
ISBN-13: 9781628995428
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Fiction; Large type books; History; Architects; Social life and customs
Description: "During the height of the Ottoman Empire twelve-year-old Johan arrived in Istanbul to become an animal tamer to the white elephant Chota, befriend the sultan's beautiful daughter, and become an apprentice to Sinan, the empire's chief architect. As they build masterpieces, dangerous undercurrents begin to emerge, with jealousy erupting among Sinan's four apprentices"--