© Paladin, 2013
Set in Istanbul, the Queen of Cities, in 2027 over the course of a week, this thriller centres around the eponymous dervish house and the lives of six of its odd inhabitants, mapping out a fascinating mosaic of corporate fraud, Islamic mysticism, Byzantine politics, ancient Ottoman mysteries, a terrifying new terrorist threat, and a nanotechnology with the potential to transform every human on the planet. It begins with an explosion. Another day, another bus bomb. Turkey, now the EU's biggest member, is a site of conflict and contradictions, a bridge between East and West, prosperity and poverty, past and present. The seemingly random act of terrorism sets in motion a chain of events that intertwines the lives of a retired Greek economist with a dark secret, a young boy, isolated in a world of silence by a rare heart condition but determined to investigate the bombing, an antiques dealer in search of a legendary mummy, a young woman in search of funding for a revolutionary start-up idea, a rogue trader and a slacker, who is haunted by visions of mythical creatures after the blast.
Gollancz 2010
Translated into: Serbian
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