I’m an avid reader of the classics, but I do love historical fiction. Every now and then a new release comes out that excites me and I need to squeeze it in.
Kaye Publicity kindly sent me The Silence of Scheherazade by Defne Suman, before it’s September 1, 2021 launch. The synopsis:
At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the ancient city of Smyrna, a devastating moment determines the fates of four families.
On an orange-tinted evening in September 1905, Scheherazade is born to an opium-dazed mother in the ancient city of Smyrna. At the very same moment, a dashing Indian spy arrives in the harbour with a secret mission from the British Empire. He sails in to golden-hued spires and minarets, scents of fig and sycamore, and the cries of street hawkers selling their wares. When he leaves, seventeen years later, it will be to the heavy smell of kerosene and smoke as the city, and its people, are engulfed in flames.
But let us not rush, for much will happen between then and now. Birth, death, romance and grief are all to come as these peaceful, cosmopolitan streets are used as bargaining chips in the wake of the First World War.
Told through the intertwining fates of a Levantine, a Greek, a Turkish and an Armenian family, this unforgettable novel reveals a city, and a culture, now lost to time.
This novel may particularly intrigue fans of Pachinko and The Eighth Life, both of which I own and are in my TBR.
I’m really excited to read The Silence of Scheherazade this fall and report back with a review!
Do you plan to pick up this new novel?
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