Description
| Product ID: | 9781800247024 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | At the Breakfast Table |
| Authors: | Author: Defne Suman, Betsy Goksel |
| Page Count: | 416 |
| Subjects: | Fiction and Related items, Fiction & related items, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Historical fiction, Fiction in translation, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Sagas, Historical fiction, Fiction in translation, Turkey |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Told from four different perspectives, At the Breakfast Table is a story of hidden histories and family secrets, revealing the psychological consequences of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Told from four different perspectives, At the Breakfast Table is a story of hidden histories and family secrets, from the author of The Silence of Scheherazade.Buyukada, Turkey, 2017. In the glow of a late summer morning, family gather for the 100th birthday of the famous artist Shirin Saka. It ought to be a time of fond reminiscence, looking back on a long and fruitful artistic career, on memories spanning almost a century.But the deep past is something Shirin has spent a lifetime trying to conceal. Her grandchildren, Nur and Fikret, and great-grandchild, Celine, do not know what she''s hiding, though they are intimately aware of the secret''s psychological consequences. The siblings invite family friend and investigative journalist Burak along to interview Shirin – in celebration of her centenary, and also in the hope of persuading her to open up.Eventually Shirin begins to express her pain the only way she knows how. She paints a story onto her dining room wall, revealing a history wiped from public consciousness and generations of her family''s history.''Fiercely intelligent, finely textured and achingly beautiful.'' Elif Shafak |
| Imprint Name: | Apollo |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-09-14 |
