Maura C. (maurac23) reviewed on 7/8/2005

'It is May 1908 and the Ottoman world is crumbling. Robert Markham, an Englishman in Constantinople, is newly posted to the British legation with his imperious wife and overly curious son. Markham's hidden life is about to make itself known.....' It is a beautifully honest story of how life is both given point and thwarted by its concern...' the book does brilliantly what novels do best. It takes us to a place and time remote from our everyday lives...'

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