Life With a View: A Turkish Quest - Softcover

Sepeda, Toni

Softcover

ISBN 10: 994442420X ISBN 13: 9789944424202

Publisher: Citlembik Publications, 2007

Synopsis

In Life with a View: A Turkish Quest American teachers Toni and Craig, traveling through Turkey in 1988, fall in love with the Black Sea coast and decide to build a house there. This is the story of their 10-year endeavor to overcome unforeseen obstacles, secure water and electricity, and learn to flourish in their newly-adopted Asian environment.

About this title

About the Author:

Toni Sepeda has lived abroad since the 1970s, teaching literature and art history in Europe. Her passions for travel, food and art influence this book about building a house on Turkey's Black Sea coast.
Author resides near Venice, Italy.

Review:

Fascinating, funny, harrowing, Life with a View is a breathtaking adventure, start to finish. I read it with a mixture of admiration and envy―and I couldn't put it down. (John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil)

Toni Sepeda's driving wanderlust, her passion for adventure (not to exclude dinner) and her love (and exasperation) for Turkey color this charming story of acquiring a house with a view of the sea. (Gael Greene, author of Insatiable: A Life of Delicious Excess)

Around an engrossing and sometimes hilarious account of the building of a holiday home―ten years in the making―on Turkey's Black Sea coast, a rich social, cultural and historical hinterland is opened up. Evocative, informative and entertaining, the book brims with fascinating insights into Turkish life. (Peter Kemp, London literary critic)

In Life with a View, Toni Sepeda gives a clear-eyed and loving picture of how to get things done (or not) in Turkey―a country where she is completely at home. (Donna Leon, best-selling author of the Brunetti mysteries)

One chapter of Life with a View is worth a whole Year in Provence. (John Freely)

About this edition

• Publisher: Citlembik Publications
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 994442420X
• ISBN 13: 9789944424202
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312