Enlightenment - Hardcover

Freely, Maureen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410410854 ISBN 13: 9781410410856

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2008

Synopsis

Disappearing a few months after her Turkish husband is detained and her young son is placed in foster care, Jeannie sends a letter to an anonymous journalist detailing the factors that shaped her three-decade life in Turkey.

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Review:

'Byzantine in structure, mischievous in intent...as concerned with the garbled and provisional nature of truth as with the minutiae of repression' -- TLS, 13 April 2007

'This is a brave novel. Freely...does not restrain her highly critical account of [Turkey's] modern history and culture' -- The Independent, 13 April 2007

Synopsis:

"That rare pleasure, a thriller that grips on every level, a bold and beautiful novel about history, memory and love." - Nicci French. This novel is set in a present day Istanbul, still full of secret groups, prosecutors and interrogators, where you can never be sure of intellectual freedom. It is a wonderfully complex plot, full of carefully drawn characters, who we see over a twenty-five year period when their lives constantly cross over, as they change from teenagers to adults. Maureen Freely is a controversial writer who is not afraid to criticize the Turkey she loves and writes about. She has defended Orhan Pamuk, two of whose novels she has translated, when he was prosecuted under Article 301 for insulting Turkishness, and she has also assisted Perihan Magden and Elif Shafak when they were prosecuted under similar articles. This book means she will probably be the next writer to face trial in Turkey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1410410854
• ISBN 13: 9781410410856
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 677