Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Bellini Card by Jason Goodwin (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Now, in The Bellini Card, Jason Goodwin takes us back into his intelligent, gorgeous and evocative (The Independent on Sunday) world, as dazzling as a hall of mirrors and utterly compelling. Istanbul, the new sultan, Abdülmecid, has heard a rumor that Bellini s vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced. Jason Goodwin studied Byzantine history at Cambridge University – and then returned to an old obsession to write The Gunpowder Gardens: Travels in China and India in Search of Tea, which was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Award. When the Berlin Wall fell, he walked from Poland to Istanbul to encounter the new European neighbours.
And so to Jason Goodwin's The Bellini Card. His two previous outings for his investigator, the eunuch Yashim, have been set in 19th-century Istanbul. There is much interest in the description of La Serenissima from an unaccustomed Ottoman viewpoint. Goodwin's fans will also expect luscious. The Bellini Card is the last book of The Bellini Card is the last book of A small book, though not so quick a read, yet sometimes it's nice to shift to different genres from what one typically reads. item 2 Bellini Card, Hardcover by Goodwin, Jason, Like New Used, Free PP in the UK 2 -Bellini Card, Hardcover by Goodwin, Jason, Like Jason Goodwin studied Byzantine History at Cambridge University and lives in Sussex with his family. The first in the Yashim series, The Janissary Tree, has.
The Bellini Card The Bellini Card by Jason Goodwin, The Bellini Card Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Bellini Card books, Charged by the Sultan to find a stolen painting by Bellini, Yashim the detective enlists the help of his friend Palewski, the Polish Ambassador, and goes undercover. Venice in is a city of empty. The whole mad, scarcely credible story of this picture – its loss and rediscovery, and the curious route it took to London – can be found in Yashim Number 3, The Bellini Card, which it of course inspired. The painting itself was done by Gentile Bellini when he spent two years in Constantinople in the late s, as a guest of this. 22 thoughts on “ The Bellini Card ” Roger Webb Febru at pm. Just finished reading the Bellini Card,loved it.I feel it really caught the atmosphere of Venice in those days, as do all the books with Istanbul.
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