Author: SUMAN, DEFNE
Title: The Silence of Scheherazade
Description: London: Head of Zeus, 2021. First English Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1800246951. B&W Maps; 6 X 9 1/4"; 502 pages; Hard cover is blue with silver lettering on the spine. DJ. NEW. Pages are clean and tight. B/w maps at front of book. Originally published in Greek. 'At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the ancient city of Smyrna, a devastating moment determines the fates of four families. On an orange-tinted evening in September 1905, Scheherazade is born to an opium-dazed mother in the ancient city of Smyrna. At the very same moment, a dashing Indian spy arrives in the harbour with a secret mission from the British Empire. He sails in to golden-hued spires and minarets, scents of fig and sycamore, and the cries of street hawkers selling their wares. When he leaves, seventeen years later, it will be to the heavy smell of kerosene and smoke as the city, and its people, are engulfed in flames. But let us not rush, for much will happen between then and now. Birth, death, romance and grief are all to come as these peaceful, cosmopolitan streets are used as bargaining chips in the wake of the First World War. ' Glossary;. New in New dust jacket .

Keywords: 1800246951 Fiction; Historical Fiction; Turkey; Middle East History; World War 1; Spies; Social History; Cultural History; Georgraphy; Historical Fiction Cultural History Education European History Geography World History Government/Economics/Law/Politics