Enlightenment: A Novel

by Maureen Freely

Overview

“A dark Conradian drama, set in a beautifully illuminated Istanbul, where the past is always with us.”—Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow

In October 2005, only a few months after her Turkish husband and five-year-old son are detained by U.S. border patrol, Jeannie Wakefield disappears. She leaves behind in Istanbul a 53-page letter revealing a convoluted tale of political intrigue, intelligence operatives and Turkish teenage radicals, of a grisly murder and a dismembered body in a trunk. It is a grim and heartbreaking history of first loves shattered and best friends betrayed. Can Jeannie be saved? Is she as innocent as she seems?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781468304091
Publisher:	The Overlook Press
Publication date:	05/26/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	749 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Maureen Freely is the principal translator of the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist, Orhan Pamuk,.Born in the U.S., she now lives in England.

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"A story almost impossible to summarize but hard to forget. Freely is an almost perversely original writer. . .A brave, unflinching work of art."-The Washington Post Book World

"[Freely] possesses an exceptional command of language...An ingenious novel about appearance and reality. . .You will not put it down."-Library Journal (starred review)

"A complex, often riveting novel...quietly stunning."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Editorial Reviews

"A story almost impossible to summarize but hard to forget. Freely is an almost perversely original writer. . .A brave, unflinching work of art."-The Washington Post Book World

"[Freely] possesses an exceptional command of language...An ingenious novel about appearance and reality. . .You will not put it down."-Library Journal (starred review)

"A complex, often riveting novel...quietly stunning."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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