### Amazon.com Review Late in the summer of 1877, a flock of purple-and-white hoopoes suddenly appears over the town of Constanta on the Black Sea, and Eleonora Cohen is ushered into the world by a mysterious pair of Tartar midwives who arrive just minutes before her birth. "They had read the signs
The Oracle of Stamboul
β Scribed by Michael David Lukas
- Publisher
- HarperCollins US
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 147 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 006201210X
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β¦ Synopsis
It is 1877, when a heartbreaking tragedy leaves Eleanora Cohen marooned in Istanbul during the last days of the Ottoman Empire. But young Eleonora, clever and engaging beyond her years, soon catches the attention of the Sultan's court.
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