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    Enlightenment

    By Maureen Freely

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    A tense thriller about the return of an investigative journalist to Istanbul from America, the scene of Jeannie's teenage love affair with Sinan, a Turkish boy, as well as the place of operation of her father, a CIA agent. Jeannie is forced to confront her past when Sinan's wife asks her for help to regain her son, taken away from her by the American authorities when Sinan is arrested trying to enter the United States, A gripping novel involving a retired secret service informer, a msyterious 'trunk' murder, and a group of radical young students in a volatile political climate, in a Turkey where everyone is a suspect and noone is who they say they are.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarion Boyars
    Release dateMar 2, 2007
    ISBN9780714520506
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    Maureen Freely

    Maureen Freely is a writer, translator, and Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies and a member of English PEN. She is the author of six novels, three works of non-fiction and is the translator of five books by the Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.

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