On a golden autumn afternoon in Paris, Casimir de Chateauneuf, wandering through the hollow arcades of the Palais Royal, stops to browse in a shop called 'Orientalia'. Past the hookahs, turbans, daggers and tambourines, his eyes are drawn to a miniature portrait of a woman with skin like ivory, and one eye blue the other yellow. That night the painting by his bedside, Casimir dreams he is lost in a city of domes and slim minarets. Alone in a shadowy courtyard a woman sits sobbing, her tears filling an empty fountain... A man possessed, Casimir abandons his wife; family, country, every-thing to journey across the ocean and desert until he finds himself in Istanbul, in the City of the World's Desire... As East meets West with the epic construction of Ferdinand de Lesseps' Suez Canal, two people, whose worlds are so far apart, are destined to discover a love beyond even their most ecstatic dreams. This 2001 Vintage Paperback is in good condition. ISBN: 9780099283553 SKU: 1576877 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.
