Shabha-yi Saray: Persian 1404

Aimée Dubuc de Riverie, cousin of the future Empress Josephine, was born in Martinique at the end of the 18th century. Captured by the Barbary pirates at the age of fifteen, offered by the Dey of Algiers to the Sultan of Constantinople, she would spend her entire life in the Seraglio. Favorite of the old Sultan, lover and beloved of his successor, adoptive mother of a third Sultan, she would wield increasingly significant occult power. Writing her memoirs as her days were numbered, Aimée relives the incredible adventure of the child who believed in her destiny, how the adolescent reduced to slavery became, through love and tears, a passionate young woman and then a Sultana at the height of power in the closed, violent, lavish, and fascinating world of the Turkish court.