Love in the Days of Rebellion
✍ Scribed by Ahmet Altan; Brendan Freely and Yelda Türedi
- Publisher
- Europa Editions
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 247 KB
- Series
- Ottoman 2;The Ottoman Quartet
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
From the author of Like a Sword Wound
Weaving together tortured love affairs, political intrigue, power struggles, and social upheavals, Love in the Days of Rebellion offers a powerful and vivid tableau of the crisis of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century.
The second installment in the Ottoman Quartet--the masterful saga of Turkish history by Ahmet Altan--follows the vast and vivid cast of characters introduced in the first volume of the series, Like A Sword Wound.
The novel opens with the attempted suicide of Hikmet Bey, the son of the sultan's personal physician. The reason for his extreme gesture was to forget the extremely beautiful and proud Mehpare Hanım, his wife and the cause of all his suffering. While Hikmet is recovering in a hospital in Thessaloniki, slowly regaining his strength and will to live, radical changes are afoot in the Ottoman capital. The power of the sultan is eroding, a rebellion...
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