*作者是土耳其最重要的现代作者之一

本书围绕着Abdülhamid II，奥斯曼帝国从1876年到1909年长达33年的统治者。他最后在青年土耳其党革命被废除，到塞萨洛尼基流亡。作者在这本书中重新建造了这名苏丹在位置上的最后几日，也就是奥斯曼帝国崩塌前的最后几日。

本书根据于Atıf Hüseyin Bey的回忆录，他曾是Abdülhamid的私人医生，这是本精彩的历史小说，探讨了权力的本质，同时也描述了一名复杂的统治者的心理素质。Abdülhamid带领了奥斯曼帝国进入非常先进以及大胆的改革，同时也被取名为“红苏丹”，因为在他的统治下他带领了亚美尼亚大屠杀。作者Zülfü是名大师，非常擅长使用准确的历史时刻来展现历史的更大视野。这片历史到今天还在影响土耳其的现代政治。

关于作者：

Zülfü Livaneli is Turkey’s bestselling author, a celebrated composer and film director, and a political activist. Widely considered one of the most important Turkish cultural figures, he is known for his novels that interweave diverse social and historical backgrounds, figures, and incidents, including the critically acclaimed Bliss (winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award), Leyla’s House, My Brother’s Story, and The Eunuch of Constantinople, which have been translated into thirty-seven languages, won numerous international literary prizes, and been turned into movies, stage plays, and operas. Livaneli was imprisoned several times during the 1971 Turkish military memorandum because of his political views and had to leave Turkey in 1972 and went on exile. He lived in Stockholm, Paris, Athens, and New York where he met and collaborated with artists and intellectuals such as Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, James Baldwin, and Peter Ustinov among others. Livaneli returned to Turkey in 1984. His works and cultural and political activities and contributions to world peace were recognized by UNESCO in 1995 when he was appointed Goodwill Ambassador to UNESCO. He quit this UNESCO post in 2016 to protest the Turkish State's damage to the historic Kurdish Old Town of Diyarbakir.[2] He served a term in the Turkish Parliament as well as in the Council of Europe.