Forty Thorns

This book is a history of Turkey from 1900 to the present, from the sultanate to the republic, of wars, revolutions and the changes within a nation, of a family and of a woman. Adalet’s marriage was cursed but ended thirty years ago. Today, she is gone but her oral memory told to her American daughter-in-law Lee, still survives. The spirited Adalet, granddaughter of Emin Aga of the Thracian vill...