Audiobook Tour: Turkey

Istanbul

Memories and the City

By: Orhan Pamuk
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.  

"Delightful, profound, marvelously origina.... Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes of memory." —The Washington Post Book World

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The Architect's Apprentice

By: Elif Shafak
Narrated by: Piter Marek
Length: 16 hours 53 minutes

A colorful, magical tale set during the height of the Ottoman Empire, from the acclaimed author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese’s Book Club Pick) Chosen for Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall’s “Reading Room” Book Club

In this novel, Turkey’s preeminent female writer spins an epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life of the Ottoman... Read more

Madonna in a Fur Coat

By: Sabahattin Ali
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The city's crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman, which will haunt him for the rest of his life. Emotionally powerful, intensely atmospheric and touchingly profound,... Read more

Stone and Shadow

By: Burhan Sönmez
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

This gorgeous, haunting saga tells the story of modern Turkey and its diverse communities through the life of a gravestone maker.In the city of Mardin, near Turkey’s border with Syria, the orphaned Avdo finds purpose when an old mason takes him on as an apprentice. From Master Josef, he learns the importance of their art, which looks after the... Read more

The Bastard of Istanbul

By: Elif Shafak
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers comes a novel about the tangled histories of two families.



In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country's violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. At its center is the "bastard" of the title, Asya, a nineteen-year-old... Read more

Nights of Plague

A novel

By: Orhan Pamuk
Narrated by: Amira Ghazalla
Length: 29 hours 8 minutes

From the the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Part detective story, part historical epic—a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague ravaging a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire.

It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingheria—the twenty-ninth state of the Ottoman Empire—located in the eastern... Read more

The Girl in the Tree

By: Şebnem İşigüzel
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

From an award-winning Turkish novelist comes a powerful English-language debut about a girl’s coming of age amid violent unrest—and her unexpected escape.A young woman climbs the tallest tree in Istanbul’s centuries-old Gülhane Park, determined to live out the rest of her days there. Perched in an abandoned stork’s nest in a sanctuary of... Read more

Without a Country

By: Ayşe Kulin
Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

From the international bestselling author of Last Train to Istanbul comes a novel based on true events that explores the depths of pride, devotion, and persistence as four generations of a family struggle to forge their destinies.As Hitler’s reign of terror begins to loom large over Germany, Gerhard and Elsa Schliemann—like other German... Read more

Istanbul

A Tale of Three Cities

By: Bettany Hughes
Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
Length: 24 hours 34 minutes

Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact.

From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul -- resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital... Read more

The Ottomans

Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs

By: Marc David Baer
Narrated by: Jamie Parker
Length: 17 hours 31 minutes

This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West.
 
The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the Christian, European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans’ multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep... Read more

Istanbul

City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World

By: Thomas F. Madden
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

One of Time’s 12 Books for the History Buffs on Your Holiday Gift List The first single-volume history of Istanbul in decades: a biography of the city at the center of civilizations past and present.

For more than two millennia Istanbul has stood at the crossroads of the world, perched at the very tip of Europe, gazing across the shores of Asia.... Read more

Last Train to Istanbul

A Novel

By: Ayşe Kulin
Narrated by: Sanjiv Jhaveri
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

An international bestseller by one of Turkey’s most beloved authors.As the daughter of one of Turkey’s last Ottoman pashas, Selva could win the heart of any man in Ankara. Yet the spirited young beauty only has eyes for Rafael Alfandari, the handsome Jewish son of an esteemed court physician. In defiance of their families, they marry, fleeing to... Read more

Birds Without Wings

By: Louis de Bernieres
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 23 hours 2 minutes

Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in southwest Turkey (Anatolia) in the early part of the last century—a quirky community in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully over the centuries and where friendship, even love, has transcended religious differences.

But with the ... Read more

The Janissary Tree

A Novel

Yashim the Eunuch

By: Jason Goodwin
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

The Janissary Tree, the first book in a new series, is set in a most extraordinary world and features a most extraordinary sleuth.



It is 1836. Europe is modernizing, and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the sultan announces sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens the fragile balance of power in his court. Who is behind... Read more

My Name Is Red

By: Orhan Pamuk
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 20 hours 25 minutes

The Nobel Prize winner and one of today's most prominent contemporary Turkish writers delivers a novel that is a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, a brilliant symposium on the power of art, and a “modern classic … rich and essential” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)—set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of... Read more