The man of Constantinople - Jose Rodriguez
This is one of the principles that "the man of Constantinople" who was born in a exhausted Ottoman Empire and became, thanks to his love for adventure and the strength of his ambition, one of the richest and most influential men in the world. This wonderful novel draws its material from real events and tells the remarkable journey of this adventurer, diplomat, businessman, and art lover, and reveals to us the secret of his enormous rise, taking us through the winding alleys of Istanbul's bazaar, to the first oil fields in the Middle East, passing through Marseille, London, and Paris… where we encounter figures such as Emmanuel Nobel, César Ritz, Winston Churchill, and also experience some historical upheavals, and are, fascinated, given an everlasting lesson: knowledge is power. This beautiful lesson in life and history also presents us with a question that "the man of Constantinople" has long pondered and asked himself on his deathbed: what is beauty? So let’s travel, then, in this world of beauty and discover the wondrous world of Portuguese writer José Rodrigues dos Santos, who is considered one of the greatest novelists in modern world literature, and rightly nicknamed the "Portuguese Dan Brown."
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