
On the Sultan’s Service: Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil’s Memoir of the Ottoman Palace, 1909-1912
Kyle Pakka
Douglas Scott Brookes.
Indiana UP, 2019.
“No dry recitation of history here: the master novelist weaves his audience into his colorful characters and scenes, guiding us through the palace as though talking to an old friend.”
—From On the Sultan’s Service
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