About the book: 2013 / Here is one of the best novels about the magnificent century of the heyday of the Ottoman Empire, about Roksolana, a Ukrainian girl and the first slave who was able to become an official wife Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. The book tells about the brightest, most interesting and dramatic years of the life of the harem, about a woman whom many historians represent as a powerful, cruel and insidious seductress!