From Palace to Exile

Selma Sultan was only seven years old when she witnessed the collapse of a great empire that shook three continents. His life story, which began with his birth in Çiragan Palace in Istanbul, had already been written as a real fairy tale. Moreover, this life was too real to be a fairy tale, too fabulous to be real.
The imperial family was exiled with the end of the reign and settled in Lebanon. Having lost both her country and her father, Selma became the "patchwork sock princess" there, tasted the first love of her life, and agreed to marry an Indian rajah she had never seen in her life. In India, he lived the lavish life of the maharajas, the last days of the British Empire, and the wars of independence initiated by Gandhi.

However, he remained a stranger there, as in Lebanon. When he was ostracized by the people he wanted to love, he had no choice but to escape to Paris. She finally found true love there, but had to leave her loved one because of the war. She died of poverty at the age of twenty-nine, after giving birth to a daughter. Kenize Murad, the author of this novel, the daughter of Selma Sultan, saw the Ottoman palace for the first time by looking at it from inside the palace, from the French mandate Lebanon, and from feudal India. He reveals it before your eyes in this novel. From Palace to Exile is one of the rare novels that tells about a great love...



Number of Pages: 597

Printing Year: < /b>2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Everest Publications