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Synopsis
"A novel of revelation . . . haunting." ―The New Yorker
It is May 1908 and the Ottoman world is crumbling. Robert Markham, an Englishman in Constantinople, is newly posted to the British legation with his imperious wife and overly curious son. Markham's hidden life is about to make itself known as he forgets familial and patriotic ties in order to absolve a deep-seated guilt. Twelve years before, he had been involved with an Armenian woman. On the evening of their engagement, the Armenian massacres erupted. Saved by his British citizenship, he witnessed the brutal rape and murder of his fiancee. Amid the breakdown of the Turkish empire, he now seeks revenge."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Barry Unsworth (1930-2012), who won the Booker Prize for Sacred Hunger, was a Booker Prize finalist for Morality Play and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize for The Ruby in Her Navel.
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Unsworth's stories of familial secrets and revenge are in paper for the first time.
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- PublisherHarperCollins Distribution Services
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0246114169
- ISBN 13 9780246114167
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages432
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