At the breakfast table / Defne Suman ; translated by Betsy Göksel.
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TextPublisher: London : Head of Zeus, 2022Description: 397 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781800247017; 180024701XUniform titles: Kahvaltı sofrası. English. Subject(s): Families -- Turkey -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | Intergenerational relations -- Fiction | Collective memory -- Fiction | Memory -- Fiction | Turkey -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | Turkey -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction | Büyük Island (İstanbul İli, Turkey) -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Novels.DDC classification: 894.353 Summary: Told from four different perspectives, At the Breakfast Table is a story of hidden histories and family secrets, from the author of The Silence of Scheherazade. Buyukada, Turkey, 2017. In the glow of a late summer morning, family gather for the 100th birthday of the famous artist Shirin Saka. It ought to be a time of fond reminiscence, looking back on a long and fruitful artistic career, on memories spanning almost a century. But the deep past is something Shirin has spent a lifetime trying to conceal. Her grandchildren, Nur and Fikret, and great-grandchild, Celine, do not know what she's hiding, though they are intimately aware of the secret's psychological consequences. The siblings invite family friend and investigative journalist Burak along to interview Shirin – in celebration of her centenary, and also in the hope of persuading her to open up. Eventually Shirin begins to express her pain the only way she knows how. She paints a story onto her dining room wall, revealing a history wiped from public consciousness and generations of her family's history.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult fiction | F SUM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 22/03/2023 | 31111085650628 |
Originally published in 2018 as Kahvaltı sofrası by Doğan Kitap, Istanbul, Turkey.
"An Apollo Book" --Title page.
Translated from the Turkish.
Told from four different perspectives, At the Breakfast Table is a story of hidden histories and family secrets, from the author of The Silence of Scheherazade. Buyukada, Turkey, 2017. In the glow of a late summer morning, family gather for the 100th birthday of the famous artist Shirin Saka. It ought to be a time of fond reminiscence, looking back on a long and fruitful artistic career, on memories spanning almost a century. But the deep past is something Shirin has spent a lifetime trying to conceal. Her grandchildren, Nur and Fikret, and great-grandchild, Celine, do not know what she's hiding, though they are intimately aware of the secret's psychological consequences. The siblings invite family friend and investigative journalist Burak along to interview Shirin – in celebration of her centenary, and also in the hope of persuading her to open up. Eventually Shirin begins to express her pain the only way she knows how. She paints a story onto her dining room wall, revealing a history wiped from public consciousness and generations of her family's history.
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