Sins & Innocents

ISBN-13: 9781859643846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 168 str.

Burhan Sonmez

Opis

My past was behind a curtain. I had to go to Feruzeh. I had to see her so I could open the curtain of both the future and the past. Two young people from foreign lands meet in a shop in Cambridge: Brani Tawo, a Kurdish political refugee from Turkey, and Feruzeh, who had fled to the UK from revolutionary Iran. Slowly, their love begins to grow, fed by stories, a shared love of literature and a subtle recognition of their mutual displacement. Brani Tawo narrates vignettes from his family history, vivid tales that evoke old legends: shepherds struck by lightning, soldiers returning home with war trauma, blood feuds that destroy families, bears mauling villagers in search of stolen cubs and a photographer who carries news to the villages in the form of the portraits he takes. These dark, inherited memories, combined with his own melancholy nature and chronic insomnia, weigh on Brani Tawo, who often seeks contemplative solace in graveyards. Over time, however, drawn by Feruzeh s quiet radiance, he begins to reach a freer place within himself. Feruzeh also harbors grim family secrets, and when she suddenly returns to Iran to attend to an emergency, Brani Tawo knows what he must do Sins and Innocents is a warm, intimate love story redolent with the (often harsh) music of Central Anatolian village society as well as the Cambridge sophistication of Wittgenstein, Brooke, Grantchester Meadows, colleges, churches and cafes. 9781859643808 Kiraze Sixteenth-century Istanbul: Esther, an intermediary between the Harem and the world outside the palace, is a powerful woman - but that power has its price... Esther is a kyra, member of a caste of Jewish women authorized to act as intermediaries between the Ottoman Sultan's harem and the wider world. Forced to flee the Spanish Inquisition, Esther's family has lost everything, but she rebuilds their fortunes in Istanbul as a confidante of the powerful and isolated women of the court. 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