Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities

Synopsis

The sunday times bestseller'life-filled and life-affirming history, steeped in romance and written with verve' guardian'richly entertaining and impeccably researched' peter frankopanistanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the qu'ran to shakespeare, this city with three names - byzantium, constantinople, istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place, and overspills its boundaries - real and imagined.