![]() ![]() The lack of a central plot, frustrating in itself, is somewhat assuaged by the varied, colorful voices of de Bernières’ several narrators. The novel ranges from the late-19th-century Ottoman Empire to the early 1920s and the memories of those who survive beyond them, and is centered in the village of Eskibahce in southwestern Anatolia. “Ataturk” (whose history is nestled among several brother narratives), triggered wholesale atrocities and mass deportations. ![]() The popular British author’s first since the huge international success of Corelli’s Mandolin (1994) is an epic chronicle of the making of modern Turkey.Īnd it’s the story of the destruction of an ethnically mixed population (including Greek, Armenian, and Turkish Christians and Muslims) who had coexisted harmoniously until the militant nationalism of warrior-politician Mustafa Kemal, a.k.a. ![]()
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