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The Wanderer (Waltari novel)
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'The Wanderer' (in the USA) or 'The Sultan's Renegade' (in the UK) is a 1949 historical novel by Mika Waltari. It is a sequel to 'The Adventurer', which tells of the adventures of a young Finnish man, Mikael Karvajalka, in 16th-century Europe. 'The Wanderer' tells the story of how Mikael converts from Christianity to Islam and rises to a high position in the court of Suleiman the Magnificent. Many historical events are recounted in the book, but Mikael's involvement in them is fictitious.
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The 'Mikael' duology won the 1950 State Literary Prize of Finland.
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Category:1949 novels
Category:20th-century Finnish novels
Category:G. P. Putnam's Sons books
Category:Historical novels
Category:Novels by Mika Waltari
Category:Novels set in the 16th century
Category:Novels set in the Ottoman Empire
Category:Picaresque novels
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