The man from Constantinople

The Ottoman Empire crumbles and the Armenian minority is persecuted. Caught in the maelstrom of events, the Sarkisian family takes refuge in Constantinople. Despite the tragedy surrounding him, young Kaloust is enchanted by the great imperial capital, and it is while crossing the Bosphorus that he first formulates the question that would haunt him for the rest of his life:
What is beauty?
He encountered the same question in the pristine face of the shy Nunuphar, in the colourful and vigorous brushstrokes of Rembrandt's canvases, and in the complex architecture of the treacherous business world, drawing him into a quest that made him the greatest art collector of his time.
But Kaloust went further than that.
He became the richest man on the planet.
Inspired by real events, The Man from Constantinople recounts the extraordinary life of the mysterious Armenian who changed the world – and definitively establishes José Rodrigues dos Santos as a major author in Portuguese literature and one of the great contemporary writers.