The harem midwife
By: Roberta Rich
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780385676663
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Midwives; Harems; Fiction; Jews; Sultans
Description: Hannah and Isaac Levi, Venetians in exile, have set up a new life for themselves in Constantinople. Isaac runs a newly established business in the growing silk trade, while Hannah, the best midwife in all of Constantinople, plies her trade within the opulent palace of Sultan Murat III, tending to the thousand women of his lively and infamous harem. But one night, when Hannah is unexpectedly summoned to the palace, she's confronted with Leah, a poor Jewish peasant girl who has been abducted and sold into the sultan's harem. The sultan favours her as his next conquest and wants her to produce his heir, but the girl just wants to return to her home and the only life she has ever known. What will Hannah do? Will she risk her life and livelihood to protect this young girl, or will she retain her high esteem in the eye of the sultan?
Notes: "Sequel to The midwife of Venice"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-312).

Issued also in electronic format.