The Architect's Apprentice, (Paperback)

from Ameise1

What a great epic, full of historical facts and yet fictional. It's about love, unrequited, unconditional but also about architecture and how it was built in the 16th century. It is about dreams that are fulfilled or unfulfilled but also about friendships that you can count on or that can lead yo...

from maryreinert

Jahan is a young boy from India whose family raises elephants. When a leader in India decides to send a rare white elephant as a gift to the Sultan in Istanbul, Jahan finds himself accompanying Chota, a young white Asian male elephant to Istanbul, Turkey at the height of the Ottman Empire. Jahan ...

from maryreinert

Jahan is a young boy from India whose family raises elephants. When a leader in India decides to send a rare white elephant as a gift to the Sultan in Istanbul, Jahan finds himself accompanying Chota, a young white Asian male elephant to Istanbul, Turkey at the height of the Ottman Empire. Jahan ...

from rmckeown

One of the benefits of a book club - my club members remind us of this benefit all the time - is discovering novels, writers, non-fiction, and poetry, we might never have considered. If I tried to list all the books I have read, only because a fellow member recommended them, I would drown in the ...

from wagner.sarah35

I really struggled with this tale about a boy in the 16th-century Ottoman imperial court. I enjoyed learning about the Ottoman architect Sinan and the impressive building programs in the Ottoman empire, but I struggle to relate to the main character of Jahan, and the reading was a little tough go...