Architect’s Apprentice,The

When a young boy, Jahan, arrives with a gift for the Sultan – a white elephant called Chota – the pair are sent to the palace’s menagerie. There they learn to guard against the scheming of animal tamers, gypsies, deceitful courtiers and the mischievous Princess Mihrimah.
Welcomed into this foreign land, Jahan and Chota travel to the furthest corners of the Sultan’s kingdom – and to war.
But one day when Jahan meets the royal architect, Sinan, he is given the chance to rise in court.
To accept is to enter the marble halls walked buy Princess Mihrimah, where the treacherous also plot – a true place of wonders and dangers.

Author: Elif Shafak

ISBN: 9780241970942