On the Sultan's Service

This book is a unique window into Otooman palace life in the twentieth century, just before everything changed. The book will find audiences with experts in Ottoman studies. The book was written by Halid Ziya Usakligil, Turkey's most famous novelist, so will have interest to those in literary studies as well. The editor and translator is an established scholar who is a lecturer in Ottoman Turkish in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.