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Before He Was Red

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Reads 317
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Parts 71
Time 10h 46m

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Amid the political turbulence of Istanbul in 1876, during the Ottoman Empire's "summer of three sultans," a Belgian woman and the future Sultan Abdul Hamid II secretly marry; weeks later he deposed his brother to ascend the throne, and she vanished without a trace.

Inspired by these true events, 'Before He Was Red' is a story of political intrigue and doomed love set in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire. When the forbidden love between a Belgian glove maker and an heir to the throne pits them against the deadly political machinations of the crumbling Ottoman empire, they must choose: betray the empire for each other, or betray their love for the throne. Intimate and intensely atmospheric, the novel explores the eternal themes of love, power, and the struggle for freedom.

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