Portrait of a Turkish Family

Eland Publishing, London, 2011. New Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 310 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. In fine unread condition. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. Irfan Orga was born into a prosperous family in the twilight of the Ottoman Empire. His mother was a beauty, married at thirteen, who lived in the seclusion of a harem, as befitted a Turkish woman of her class. His grandmother was an eccentric autocrat, determined at all costs to maintain her traditional habits. But the First World War changed everything. Death and financial disaster reigned, the Sultan was overthrown and Turkey became a republic. The family was forced to adapt to an unimaginably impoverished life. In 1941 Irfan Orga arrived in London, and seven years later he wrote this extraordinary story of his family's survival. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Turkey; 20th century; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780907871811. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10238. . 9780907871811