The Oracle of Stamboul, Michael David Lukas
The Oracle of Stamboul, Michael David Lukas
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The Oracle of Stamboul
A Novel

Author: Michael David Lukas

Narrator: Mozhan Marno

Unabridged: 7 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 02/08/2011

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Set in the heart of the exotic Ottoman Empire during the first years of its chaotic decline, Michael David Lukas’ elegantly crafted, utterly enchanting debut novel follows a gifted young girl who dares to charm a sultan—and change the course of history, for the empire and the world. An enthralling literary adventure, perfect for readers entranced by the mixture of historical fiction and magical realism in Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass, Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red, or Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, Lukas’ evocative tale of prophesy, intrigue, and courage unfolds with the subtlety of a Turkish mosaic and the powerful majesty of an epic for the ages.  

About Michael David Lukas

MICHAEL DAVID LUKAS has been a Fulbright scholar in Turkey, a late-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv and a Rotary scholar in Tunisia. He is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Maryland, and his writing has been published in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, National Geographic Traveler and the Georgia Review. Lukas lives in Oakland, California, less than a mile from where he was born. When he isn’t writing,he teaches creative writing to third- and fourth-graders. Visit him online at www.michaeldavidlukas.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Meredith

I was quite excited to read this novel about Turkey (especially after hearing an interview with the author on NPR) and anticipated losing myself in the magic of Eleonora's adventures. Instead, I was struck by huge bricks of wordiness and insignificant (read: unnecessary) characters. Every time the s......more

Goodreads review by Cherisa

How to take an interesting story from history and turn it dull and wooden with egregiously bad dialog and stilted sentence construction. Grateful the “oracle’s” career was short so that the book was too. The location, European sections of Istanbul, was well drawn and gives the reader something posit......more

Goodreads review by Mal

Sheer Reading Pleasure If you enjoy reading for its unique possibilities — mellifluous language, vivid imagery, immersion in places and circumstances you might never experience — then you’ll love this book. From the very first page, The Oracle of Stamboul will draw you relentlessly into the world of......more

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