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02048aam a2200361Mi 4500 001 553B722032FD11ECA73A95B520ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211022010017 008 201119s2021 enk 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9781800246966 020 $a 180024696X 020 $a 9781800246959 020 $a 1800246951 035 $a (OCoLC)1222896580 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d SINLB $d OCLCO $d NZLPP $d OCLCF $d CNCAR $d IOU $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h tur 043 $a a-tu--- 082 04 $a 894.3534 $2 23 100 1 $a Suman, Defne, $d 1974- $e author. 245 14 $a The silence of Scheherazade / $c Defne Suman ; translated by Betsy GoÌksel. 264 1 $a London : $b Zead of Zeus, $c 2021. 300 $a 502 pages ; $c 23 cm 500 $a Translated from the Turkish. 520 $a 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. 651 0 $a IÌzmir (Turkey) $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a GoÌksel, Betsy, $e translator. 941 $a 3 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20211203011205.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20211109012019.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211022010116.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=553B722032FD11ECA73A95B520ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search