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Love in the Days of Rebellion
Engelsk Paperback
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The second instalment 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. By weaving together tortured love affairs, political intrigue, power struggles, and social upheavals, the novel offers a powerful and vivid tableau of the crisis of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century.

The second instalment opens with the attempted suicide of Hikmet Bey, the son of the sultan’s personal physician. The reason for his extreme gesture is, to forget the extremely beautiful and proud Mehpare Hanım, his wife and the cause of all his suffering. While Hikmet recovers 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 is brewing, and violence erupts on the streets of Istanbul. It is the eve of one of the key events that will lead to the collapse of the Empire: the countercoup of 1909.

With striking clarity and imaginative power, Altan evokes the traumas and upheavals of Ottoman history, showing how—over a hundred years later—the events and wounds of that time still resonate in the tensions and contradictions of today’s Turkey.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
496
ISBN-13:
9781787702479
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1787702472
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Udg. Dato:
26 nov 2020
Længde:
44mm
Bredde:
135mm
Højde:
210mm
Forlag:
Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Oplagsdato:
26 nov 2020
Forfatter(e):
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