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Like a sword wound
- Title
- Like a sword wound / Ahmet Altan ; translated from the Turkish by Brendan Freely and Yelda Türedi.
- Author
- Altan, Ahmet
- Publication
- New York : Europa Editions, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- 344 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Altan's Ottoman Quartet spans the fifty years between the final decades of the 19th century and the post-WWI rise of Atatürk as both unchallenged leader and visionary reformer of the new Turkey. The four books tell the stories of an unforgettable cast of characters, among them: an Ottoman army officer, the Sultan's personal doctor, a scion of the royal house whose Western education brings him into conflict with his family's legacy, and a beguiling Turkish aristocrat who, while fond of her emancipated life in Paris, finds herself drawn to a conservative Muslim spiritual leader. Intrigue, betrayal, love, war, progress, and tradition provide a colourful backdrop against which their lives play out. All the while, the society to which they belong is transforming, and the Sublime Empire disintegrates. Here is a Turkish saga reminiscent of War and Peace, that traces not only the social currents of the time but also the erotic and emotional lives of its characters.
- Series Statement
- Ottoman quartet ; book one
- Uniform Title
- Kılıç yarası gibi. English
- Alternative Title
- Kılıç yarası gibi.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- Language (note)
- In English; translated from the original Turkish.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-1114
- ISBN
- 160945474X
- 9781609454746
- 9781787701540
- 1787701549
- OCLC
- 1026662837
- Author
- Altan, Ahmet, author.
- Title
- Like a sword wound / Ahmet Altan ; translated from the Turkish by Brendan Freely and Yelda Türedi.
- Publisher
- New York : Europa Editions, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Ottoman quartet ; book one
- Language
- In English; translated from the original Turkish.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1999
- Added Author
- Freely, Brendan, 1959- translator.Türedi, Yelda, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-1114