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Describes in chilling, yet affectionate, detail the disintegration
of a wealthy Ottoman family, both financially and emotionally. It
is rich with the scent of fin de siecle Istanbul in the last days
of the Ottoman Empire. His mother was a beauty, married at
thirteen, as befitted a Turkish woman of her class. His grandmother
was an eccentric autocrat, determined at all costs to maintain her
traditional habits. But the war changed everything. Death and
financial disaster reigned, the Sultan was overthrown, and Turkey
became a republic. The red fez was ousted by the cloth cap, and the
family was forced to adapt to an unimaginably impoverished life.
Filled with brilliant vignettes of old Turkish life, such as the
ritual weekly visit to the hamam, as it tells the "other side " of
the Gallipoli story, and its impact on one family and the
transformation of a nation. "It is just as though someone had
opened a door marked `Private' and showed you what was inside.... A
most interesting and affectionate book."-Sir John Betjeman. "A
wholly delightful book."-Harold Nicolson
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