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Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor. Prominent in independent film, he has also worked in blockbuster films of varying genres, and has accrued a worldwide box office gross of over 1.9 billion USD. He has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award. Born and raised in Canada, he rose to prominence at age 13 for being a child star on the Disney Channel's The Mickey Mouse Club (1993–1995), and went on to appear in other family entertainment programs, including Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1995) and Goosebumps (1996). His first film role was as a Jewish neo-Nazi in The Believer (2001), and he went on to star in several independent films, including Murder by Numbers (2002), The Slaughter Rule (2002), and The United States of Leland (2003). Gosling gained wider recognition and stardom for the 2004 romance film The Notebook. This was followed by starring roles in a string of critically acclaimed independent dramas including Half Nelson (2006), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Gosling co-starred in three mainstream films in 2011, the romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love and the action drama Drive, all of which were critical and commercial successes. He then starred in the acclaimed financial satire The Big Short (2015) and the romantic musical La La Land (2016), the latter of which won him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Further acclaim followed with the science fiction thriller Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and the biopic First Man (2018). In addition to acting, he made his directorial debut in 2014's Lost River.
The story of the novel begins in the Turkish city of Istanbul, located on both banks of the Bosphorus, which separates Europe from Asia. A rich tobacco trader, Kéraban, lives here. His house is located in the Asian district of Scutari, his office is in the European part, so he has to use the ferry every day. Kéraban is visited by a business partner from Rotterdam, Jan Van Mitten, and a servant, Bruno. He decides to invite Van Mitten to his house for dinner. When everyone wants to travel across the strait, Kéraban finds out that this transport has been burdened by a new tax. Kerraban is very angry, he doesn't want to pay. He decides to take a 700km trip around the Black Sea. The problem with the trip is that he has to return to Istanbul within six weeks to arrange Ahmet's nephew's wedding to the girl Amasia, who has to marry by her 17th birthday, otherwise he will not inherit one hundred thousand Turkish pounds. in Odessa, Ahmet and Amasia joins, followed by a wild boar attack, then big problems arise due to hired bandits who are trying to prevent the wedding. Then the Russian Cossacks, pirates, and Kurds, and abduction of Amasia. They get back to Istanbul. Ahmet's wedding to Amasia can be only in the European part of the city, where Kéraban can´t get without paying that ferry fee. A well-known artist intends to cross the Bosphorus on a rope that is 1,300 meters long stretched between its two banks. Kéraban lets himself be transported on a rope in a wheelbarrow.
