Our Infinite Fates

Our Infinite Fates

Author: Laura Steven Listening Length: 11h 12m
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets This is How You Lose The Time War in this fantastical love story that defies death as two souls reincarnate through the centuries. Theyve loved each other in a thousand lifetimes. Theyve killed each other in every one. Evelyn can remember all her past lives. She can also remember...

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OTTOMAN EMPIRE 1472

AFTER SEVERAL LONG HOURS in the sultan’s library, I went to soak in the hammam.

I was painstakingly translating Ptolemy into Turkish at the behest of Mehmed himself, who had summoned me from Athens upon hearing of my linguistic capabilities – so advanced for a boy of seventeen. My head was a wrung-out dishrag after a day of slow writing, and I longed to steam away the intellectual rigour of the task.

It was late afternoon, and the külliye thrummed with activity. I strolled past the domed central prayer hall – arched with bands of coloured stone and mosaic tiles – and the pretty arcaded courtyards with babbling fountains, then past the cluster of madrasas, where my new friend Raziye was teaching a class on the Islamic sciences.

Beyond the campus lay the whole of Constantinople.