The Wanderer (Waltari novel)
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The Wanderer (in the USA) or The Sultan's Renegade (in the UK) is a 1949 novel by Mika Waltari, part 2 of 2, telling of the adventures of a young Finnish man, Mikael Karvajalka, in 16th century Europe. It tells the story how Mikael turns from Christianity to Islam and rises to a high state in the court of Suleiman the Magnificent. There are many actual historical events in this book, but how Mikael gets involved in them is fictitious.
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- Novels by Mika Waltari
- Historical novels
- Historical novel stubs
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