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Farewell: A Mansion in Occupied Istanbul

Farewell: A Mansion in Occupied Istanbul

Author(s): Ayse Kulin

Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)

Genre(s): Historical

Era(s): Early 20th century

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A sweeping story of the final collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the wake of the First World War. Focusing on the experiences of one particular family living in one particular house during these historic events, Ayşe Kulin mixes fact and fiction, soap opera and Tolstoy, to bring to light the effects of such political upheaval on a nominally comfortable and affluent household: the monied and intellectual class who find that their stake in Turkish life and culture is far more precarious than they could have guessed.

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Excessive exposition may make for a graceless novel, but it’s a fault I’m very glad of in this instance, since this book depends on the details of the events of the last year of the Ottoman Empire, 1920. The...

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