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Portrait of a Turkish Family
Irfan Orga
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Eland |
0907871828 |
£9.99 |
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Review
 Born into a traditional Istanbul family, Orga's world collapsed with the Ottoman Empire and the First World War. After a lifetime of prosperous seclusion, the women had to go out to work and Orga, as a boy, went to the poorhouse. Besides being a moving account of a family's decline, this is a unique glimpse into the intimacy of an Ottoman household and the devastating effects of the Empire's collapse on one family. No other book gives such an accessible sense of the astonishing changes that occurred in Turkey early this century; it reveals with horrible clarity the repercussions to an ordinary family of political convulsions. - review by Johnny de Falbe
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