Description

In his first book since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières produces a global, populates it with characters as real as our close friends, and starts it in to the maelstrom of twentieth century heritage. The location is just a small town in southwestern Anatolia in the declining decades of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, although they create it in Greek characters. It’s a location that's space for an expert blasphemer; where a broken-hearted aga finds comfort in the arms of the Circassian courtesan who isn’t Circassian whatsoever; where an attractive Christian woman named Philothei is involved to a Muslim child named Ibrahim.