In 1909, after thirty-three years on the throne, Sultan Abdülhamid II is deposed by the Young Turk Revolution and exiled to the Alatini Mansion in Salonica. Drawing on the diaries of Atıf Hüseyin Bey, the deposed sultan's personal physician, Livaneli reconstructs the claustrophobic final years of a fallen autocrat — a meditation on power, tyranny, and freedom that speaks directly to Turkey's present.
Translated into English by Brendan Freely (Other Press) and into Spanish as A lomos del tigre (Galaxia Gutenberg).
