Best-selling Turkish author Solmaz Kamuran resurrects a little known historical figure and renders both her life and the Ottoman Empire at its peak with precision and passion.
A biography of Esther Handali, the 16th century widow of an Istanbul rabbi and refugee from the Spanish Inquisition, who established herself, during the reign of Suleyman the Magnificent in the Ottoman Empire, as an intermediary between his seraglio and the world outside.
