For the time, space, and inspiration needed to write this book, enormous appreciation to: Montalvo Arts Center, Santa Maddalena Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Book Passage, Pizzaiolo, the Anne and Robert Cowan Writers Award, the Center for Middle East Studies at UC Berkeley, and the Geniza Research Unit at the University of Cambridge.
Thanks so much to everyone who read the book and supported me through the writing process: Anna Akullian, Rabih Alameddine, Rachel Brand, Maud Casey, Carolyn Cooke, John Engell, Mark Epstein, Danny Fingerman, Daniela Gerson, Rebecca Jefferson, Billy Karp, Reese Kwon, Ben Lavender, Krys Lee, Ben Outhwaite, Jeffrey Rotter, Melonie Schmeirer-Lee, Amy Smith, David Stein, Indira Stewart, Christina Toma, and Tristam Wolff. And special thanks to those stalwart souls who read more than one draft: Adam Akullian, David Akullian, Lillie Brum, Jonah Charney-Sirott, Kevin Fingerman, Joy Johannesen, and Reif Larsen.
Most of all, I would like to give thanks to and for the members of my little family: to Rashi for his endless love and excitement; to Mona for expanding the borders of my heartland, far beyond anything I could have imagined; and to Haley for everything, always.
BY MICHAEL DAVID LUKAS
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
The Oracle of Stamboul
About the Author
MICHAEL DAVID LUKAS is the author of the international bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul, which was a finalist for the California Book Award, the NCIBA Book of the Year Award, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and has been published in fifteen languages. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey, a student at the American University of Cairo, and a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv. A graduate of Brown University, he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Santa Maddalena Foundation, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, and VQR. He works in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley and lives in Oakland, California.
michaeldavidlukas.com
Twitter: @michaeldlukas
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