Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent ? and suddenly her life is transformed. Her first assignment is to read a novel about the ancient Sufi mystic, Rumi, who was transformed by the whirling dervish into a passionate poet and advocate […]
One rainy afternoon in Istanbul a woman walks into a doctor??s surgery. I need to have an abortion, she announces. She is nineteen years old, and unmarried. What happens that afternoon is to change her life, and the lives of everyone around her. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. […]