Tales from the Expat Harem
Title | Tales from the Expat Harem PDF eBook |
Author | Anastasia M. Ashman |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 2010-03 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1458767329 |
As the Western world struggles to comprehend the paradoxes of modern Turkey, a country both European and Asian, forward-looking yet rooted in ancient empire, Tales from the Expat Harem reveals its most personal nuances. This illuminating anthology provides a window into the country from the perspective of thirty-two expatriates from seven different nations - artists, ntrepreneurs, Peace Corps volunteers, archaeologists, missionaries, and others - who established lives in Turkey for work, love, or adventure. Through narrative essays covering the last four decades, these diverse women unveil the mystique of the ''Orient,'' describe religious conflict, embrace cultural discovery, and maneuver familial traditions, customs, and responsibilities. Poignant, humorous, and transcendent, the essays take readers to weddings and workplaces, down cobbled Byzantine streets, into boisterous bazaars along the Silk Road, and deep into the feminine stronghold of steamy Ottoman bathhouses. The outcome is a stunning collection of voices from women suspended between two homes as they redefine their identities and reshape their worldviews. Coining the ''expat harem'' as a distinct community, the editors also boldly reclaim the concept of an Eastern harem - long the subject of erroneous Western stereotype. ''Much like the imported brides of fifteenth-century sultans, our expat harem is conjured by the shared circumstance of being foreign-born and female in a land laced with a harem tradition,'' Ashman and Gokmen declare. ''Our writers are inextricably wedded to Turkish culture, embedded in it, yet alien nonetheless.''
Tales from the Expat Harem
Title | Tales from the Expat Harem PDF eBook |
Author | Anastasia M Ashman |
Publisher | Seal Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2009-07-22 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1580053300 |
As the Western world struggles to comprehend the paradoxes of modern Turkey, Tales from the Expat Harem reveals its most personal nuances. This illuminating anthology provides a window into the country from the perspective of thirty-two expatriates from seven different nations-artists, entrepreneurs, Peace Corps volunteers, archaeologists, missionaries, and others-who established lives in Turkey for work, love, or adventure. Through narrative essays covering the last four decades, these diverse women unveil the mystique of the "Orient,” describe religious conflict, embrace cultural discovery, and maneuver familial traditions, customs, and responsibilities. Poignant, humorous, and transcendent, the essays take readers to weddings and workplaces, down cobbled Byzantine streets, into boisterous bazaars along the Silk Road, and deep into the feminine stronghold of steamy Ottoman bathhouses. The outcome is a stunning collection of voices from women suspended between two homes as they redefine their identities and reshape their worldviews.
Tales from the Expat Harem
Title | Tales from the Expat Harem PDF eBook |
Author | Anastasia M. Ashman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Turkey |
ISBN | 9789759914639 |
The Seven Stages of Anger
Title | The Seven Stages of Anger PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy J. Fox |
Publisher | |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781941209073 |
Stories by Wendy Fox, winner of the first Press 53 Award for Short Fiction.
Istanbul
Title | Istanbul PDF eBook |
Author | John Freely |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 1998-02-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0141926058 |
Istanbul's history is a catalogue of change, not least of name, yet it has managed to retain its own unique identity. John Freely captures the flavour of daily life as well as court ceremonial and intrigue. The book also includes a comprehensive gazetteer of all major monuments and museums. An in-depth study of this legendary city through its many different ages from its earliest foundation to the present day - the perfect traveller's companion and guide.
Istanbul Noir
Title | Istanbul Noir PDF eBook |
Author | Mustafa Ziyalan |
Publisher | Akashic Books |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1933354623 |
The Akashic Noir Series moves fearlessly to the city hosting the European/Asian divide.
Istanbul Passage
Title | Istanbul Passage PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Kanon |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2012-05-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1439164827 |
In the bestselling tradition of espionage novels by John LeCarre and Alan Furst, Istanbul Passage brilliantly illustrates why Edgar Award–winning author Joseph Kanon has been hailed as "the heir apparent to Graham Greene" (The Boston Globe). Istanbul survived the Second World War as a magnet for refugees and spies. Even expatriate American Leon Bauer was drawn into this shadow world, doing undercover odd jobs in support of the Allied war effort. Now as the espionage community begins to pack up and an apprehensive city prepares for the grim realities of postwar life, Leon is given one last routine assignment. But when the job goes fatally wrong—an exchange of gunfire, a body left in the street, and a potential war criminal on his hands—Leon is trapped in a tangle of shifting loyalties and moral uncertainty. Played out against the bazaars and mosques and faded mansions of this knowing, ancient Ottoman city, Istanbul Passage is the unforgettable story of a man swept up in the dawn of the Cold War, of an unexpected love affair, and of a city as deceptive as the calm surface waters of the Bosphorus that divides it.