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Sailing Through Byzantium

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It's one mInute to mIdnIght on 27th october 1962. the cuban mIssIle crIsIs Is enterIng Its fInal countdown as the world prepares for nuclear wInter. But in Istanbul's old bohemian quarter, a confederacy of free spirits has gathered around a baby grand to see the night out in style. The moment is captured in a legendary photograph. Behind them, dark ships pass along the Bosphorus. Some could be Soviet tankers, smuggling missiles to Cuba, but tonight no one is looking. All eyes are on Grace, the dark-haired singer. All that matters is her sublime voice, and her song: Stormy Weather. ;The girl crouched beneath the piano is the discordant note in the flamboyant scene. This is Mimi, Grace's nine-year old daughter. Until tonight she believed every word her mother uttered. Now she sees a byzantine web of lies. Who abandoned whom that night? And why did it change her life forever? On the 27th October 2012, Mimi has come back, haunted by these unanswered questions, to make her peace with the past.

Author Biography:

Maureen Freely was born in the US but grew up in Turkey, where her family still lives. She was educated at Radcliffe College, Harvard University, and has spent most of her adult life in England. A professor at the University of Warwick, and currently the chair of the Translators Association, she is perhaps best known for her translations of five books by the Turkish novelist and Nobel Laureate, Orhan Pamuk, and for her campaigning journalism after he and other writers, scholars and activists were prosecuted for insulting Turkishness or the memory of Ataturk. She continues to be active in PEN and other organisations campaigning for freedom of expression. Sailing through Byzantium is her seventh novel, and her third to be set in Istanbul.
Release date Australia
October 28th, 2013
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
256
ISBN-13
9780957596818
Product ID
21745321

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