A complex novel juxtaposes youthful allegiances and political
machinations in Turkey.U.S.-born, U.K.-based translator Freely (The
Other Rebecca, 2000, etc.) tackles weighty themes in her long,
dark, spiraling story. Her American narrator, journalist M, spent
her childhood in Istanbul and fell in love with American-born
Sinan, but he rejected her in favor of another American girl,
Jeannie, the daughter of an American spy. It's the early 1970s and
Sinan is involved with a group that comes to be labeled a Maoist
cell, its members accused of murder. Decades later, Sinan and
Jeannie marry and have a child. But in 2005, while entering the
United States with their five-year-old son, Sinan is arrested and
sent to Guantanamo, and the child is put into foster care. Jeannie,
ignorant of M's past involvement with Sinan, asks her to write an
article to publicize their plight; then Jeannie disappears too. M
finds herself reconstructing Jeannie's story while forced to
consider how it connects with her own. The novel endlessly revisits
an inner circle of characters and repeatedly reinterprets the
events, against a background of murky layers of political villainy.
Despite its thriller-like components, this is a dense, shadowy and
serious work concerned with dirty wars, the plight of Turkey, the
pursuit of U.S. strategic interest and the possible existence of a
"deep state."Conspiracy theory, nationhood and relationships
collide, often obscurely, in a multilayered and earnest, if oddly
remote, tale. (Kirkus Reviews)
Jeannie Wakefield needs help. Her family is being held by the US
authorities. M is a journalist and at Jeannie's request she returns
to Istanbul to investigate. She tries to be objective, but
Jeannie's husband is also M's first love.
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