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TitleMidnight at the Pera PalaceTypeTextMonographSubjectIstanbul (Turkey)--History--20th century (LCSH)Istanbul (Turkey)--Social life and customs--20th century (LCSH)Istanbul (Turkey)--Social conditions--20th century (LCSH)City and town life--Turkey--Istanbul--History--20th century (LCSH)Pera Palas Oteli (Istanbul, Turkey)--History--20th century. (LCSH)Social change--Turkey--Istanbul--History--20th century (LCSH)Cosmopolitanism--Turkey--Istanbul--History--20th century (LCSH)Illustrative ContentIllustrationsMaps ClassificationLCC: DR731 .K56 2014 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)DDC: 949.61/8024 full (Assigner: dlc)(Source: 23) Supplementary Contentbibliography index Summary"When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, so many spies mingled in the lobby of Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel that the manager posted a sign asking them to relinquish seats to paying guests. As the multi-ethnic empire became a Turkish republic, Russian émigrés sold family heirlooms, an African American impresario founded a jazz club, Miss Turkey became the first Muslim beauty queen, and a Boston professor unveiled the lost treasures of the Hagia Sophia. Turkey's president Kemal Atatürk, Muslim feminist Halide Edip, the exiled Leon Trotsky, and the future Pope John XXIII fought for new visions of human freedom. During World War II, German intellectuals ran from the Nazis while Jewish activists spirited refugees out of occupied Europe. In this pioneering portrait of urban reinvention, Charles King re-creates an era when an ancient city became a global crossroads--a forgotten moment when Europe's closest Muslim metropolis became its vital port of refuge; 'Intrigue, violence, sex, and espionage, all set against the slow dimming of Ottoman magnificence. I loved this book'--Simon Winchester"--Provided by publisher.Table Of ContentsMaps
Author's note
Prologue
Grand hotel
The gray fleet
Occupation
Resistance
Moscow on the Bosphorus
Konstantinoupolis
"The post-war world was jazzing"
"The past is a wound in my heart"
Modern times
Beyond the veil
Living like a squirrel
Island life
Queen
Holy wisdom
Shadow wars
Paper trails
At the Gate of Felicity
Epilogue
Glossary
Chronology.
Authorized Access PointKing, Charles, 1967- Midnight at the Pera Palace