On the eve of a coup d'etat, the wife of a diplomat newly returned to Turkey finds that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fuat, is in fact a childhood friend. Having married more for status than love, and quizzically unmoored from the reality of day-to-day existence in the capital, she begins to nurse an impossible love for her husband's superior, taking the reader on a compelling and often playful journey through one woman's off-kilter view of herself, and the world of modern Turkey.
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On the eve of a coup d'etat, the wife of a diplomat newly returned to Turkey finds that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fuat, is in fact a childhood friend. Having married more for status than love, and quizzically unmoored from the reality of day-to-day existence in the capital, she begins to nurse an impossible love for her husband's superior, taking the reader on a compelling and often playful journey through one woman's off-kilter view of herself, and the world of modern Turkey.
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