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Summer Heat
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One hot summer day in 2003, 40-year-old art historian Melike Isik leaves her summer home in Princes Island and takes the ferry to Fener, one of the oldest neighbourhoods in the city. She is travelling to a mysterious meeting with an even more mysterious man. Known...
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Summer Heat
Set alternately between 2003 and 1974, during the Turkish army's invasion of Cyprus, Defne Suman's third novel to be translated into English tells of one woman's place in her country's devastating history.
The third novel-in-translation from Turkish author Defne Suman, Summer Heat sees a mysterious meeting between which threatens to unravel generations-long secrets.
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Description
One hot summer day in 2003, 40-year-old art historian Melike Isik leaves her summer home in Princes Island and takes the ferry to Fener, one of the oldest neighbourhoods in the city.
She is travelling to a mysterious meeting with an even more mysterious man. Known only to her through a brief email exchange, Petros has contacted her out of the blue, asking for a tour of Istanbul’s Byzantine churches. Melike, intrigued, agrees to help.
The place they arrange to meet, the Church of Saint Mary of Mongols, holds tender memories for Melike, located right across from where her long-dead grandmother lies. But what Melike at first assumes is a coincidence soon gives way to something much greater.
As she begins to realise Petros’s real motivations, long-held secrets begin to unravel…
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781035902330
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 09 May 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Apollo
Edition: Unabridged edition
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 40.0mm
Width: 150.0mm
Height: 230.0mm
Weight: 820g
Pages: 432
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About the Author
Defne Suman was born in Istanbul and grew up on Buyukada. She gained a Masters in sociology from the Bosphorus University, then worked as a teacher in Thailand and Laos where she studied Far Eastern philosophy and mystic disciplines. She later continued her studies in Oregon, USA and now lives in Athens with her husband. Her English language debut The Silence of Scheherazade was published by Head of Zeus in 2021. Find out more: defnesuman.com; @defnesuman
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