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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. It was a humorously enjoyable reading. It was easy dipping into Istanbul's magical life between Occident and Orient. It shows how people struggle with the changing of 'modern' life. Firstly it looks like some habitants had aquired an occidental habit on the other hand old traditions are deep-rooted. The conflict of those different point of view is the foundation of the plot. One is suffering with each character, which are perfectly described and it was a lightness to be familiar with each of them. ( ) Pretty Dead Things, by Barbara Nadel, Headline Books Barbara Nadel brings Istanbul to seductive life so skillfully she could double as a travel writer, and should certainly be receiving Marketing fees from the Turkish Tourism Board. Against a background that artfully combines the contemporary excitement of a huge European Soccer match and the remnants and memories of the hippy Counter-culture that passed through the city in the late 1960s, Inspector Cetin Ikmen investigates the appearance of an unknown skeleton, and the disappearance of a rich housewife. Fetishism, necrophilia, murder and madness are stirred into the multi-cultural melting pot, and seasoned with a dash of Byzantine mystery and football fanaticism to produce an entertaining read. Word Count: 106 no reviews | add a review
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When Emine Aksu, the flamboyant wife of an Istanbul style guru, suddenly goes missing, Inspector Cetin Ikmen's investigation leads him deep into her strange and colourful past. Emine was a hippie when she was younger, who wholeheartedly enjoyed the liberated lifestyle that swept across the city when the western Europeans flooded into Istanbul in the sixties. According to her husband, Emine never really left behind the free love pleasures she discovered back then and he suspects she was visiting an old friend at the time of her disappearance. Meanwhile, Inspector Mehmet Suleyman is called to a terrifying scene at the art deco Kamondo Stairs in the old banking district of Karakoy. The skeleton of a woman has been discovered in one of the large plant containers. Could these two bizarre incidents be linked? No library descriptions found. |
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