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Product Identifiers
PublisherWashington Square Press
ISBN-100743444140
ISBN-139780743444149
eBay Product ID (ePID)2298031
Product Key Features
Book TitleSeven Houses : a Novel
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSagas, General, Literary
Publication Year2003
GenreFiction
AuthorAlev Lytle Croutier
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight11.9 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsSan Francisco Chronicle A highly imaginative family saga...Croutier's measuered prose is artistic and sensuous., Isabel AllendeSeven Housesis an exotic and beautiful story. Alev Croutier has a rare talent for braiding history and fiction in an intricate pattern. In her writing Turkey emerges like the land of Scheherazade., Isabel Allende Seven Houses is an exotic and beautiful story. Alev Croutier has a rare talent for braiding history and fiction in an intricate pattern. In her writing Turkey emerges like the land of Scheherazade., San Francisco ChronicleA highly imaginative family saga...Croutier's measuered prose is artistic and sensuous.
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisIn her new novel bestselling author Alev Lytle Croutier sweeps readers up in an enchanting chronicle of four generations of Turkish Women., "An exotic and beautiful story" (Isabel Allende) chronicling the lives of four generations of remarkable women, sweeping readers from the last days of the Ottoman monarchy to Turkey's transformation into a republic and the present day backlash. "A highly imaginitive family saga...Croutier's measured prose is artistic and sensuous" ( San Francisco Chronicle ) as the story of a silkmaking family iss told through the houses they occupied. From a grand villa in Smyrna in the early twentieth century to a silk plantation in the foothills of Mount Olympus, from a tiny house in a sleepy town to an apartment in a modern urban high-rise, the family's dwellings reflect its fortune's rise and fall. As communal baths and odalisques give way to movies and cell phones, four unique yet powerfully linked women experience all of life's hardships and pleasures., From internationally acclaimed author Alev Lytle Croutier,Seven Houseschronicles the lives of four generations of remarkable women, sweeping readers from the last days of the Ottoman monarchy to Turkey's transformation into a republic and the present-day backlash. It is the saga of a silkmaking family as told through the houses they occupied. From a grand villa in Smyrna in the early twentieth century to a silk plantation in the foothills of Mount Olympus, from a tiny house in a sleepy town to an apartment in a modern urban high-rise, the family's dwellings reflect its fortune's rise and fall. As communal baths and odalisques give way to movies and cell phones, four unique yet powerfully linked women experience all of life's hardships and pleasures., From internationally acclaimed author Alev Lytle Croutier, Seven Houses chronicles the lives of four generations of remarkable women, sweeping readers from the last days of the Ottoman monarchy to Turkey's transformation into a republic and the present-day backlash. It is the saga of a silkmaking family as told through the houses they occupied. From a grand villa in Smyrna in the early twentieth century to a silk plantation in the foothills of Mount Olympus, from a tiny house in a sleepy town to an apartment in a modern urban high-rise, the family's dwellings reflect its fortune's rise and fall. As communal baths and odalisques give way to movies and cell phones, four unique yet powerfully linked women experience all of life's hardships and pleasures.
