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"The setting is a stately residence in Istanbul, built by Russian noble Pavel Antipov for his wife Agripina at the end of the Tsarist reign -- now sadly dilapidated, flea-infested and home to ten families. Shafak uses the structure of A Thousand and One Nights to construct a story-within-a-story nar... Full description
Summary: |
"The setting is a stately residence in Istanbul, built by Russian noble Pavel Antipov for his wife Agripina at the end of the Tsarist reign -- now sadly dilapidated, flea-infested and home to ten families. Shafak uses the structure of A Thousand and One Nights to construct a story-within-a-story narrative. Elif Shafak is an outstanding name amongst young Turkish authors. She has written four novels and won the Mevlana Prize for the best work in mystical and transcendental literature."--Library of Congress description. |
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Item Description: |
SHELVED IN LANGUAGE |
Physical Description: |
381 pages ; 20 cm. |
ISBN: |
9753423543 (pbk.) 9789753423540 (pbk.) |