20 Kasım 2024 Çarşamba 18:00
The Adventure of The Second Wife: The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and The Ottoman Sultan
Clifford Endres, Selda Y. Burma
Book Club
The Kıraathane Book Club continues its discussion with Andrew Finkel's The Adventure of The Second Wife: The Strange Case of Abdülhamid and Sherlock Holmes. A London Doctor and a literature professor from Istanbul, Watson and Leyla are dragged in Istanbul in pursuit of The Second Wife Adventure which actually does not exist. And the pursuit becomes a historical dedective novel.
Andrew Finkel has, since 1989, reported from Turkey for media organisations like The Economist, Time, CNN and the Latitude column of The New York Times. He also had columns in the Turkish language press, the result of which motivated him to become a founding member of P24 and a member of its executive board. He has also written scholarly articles on media and press capture. He is still a contributing editor and restaurant critic for Cornucopia magazine. The Adventure of the Second Wife is Finkel’s third book but first novel.
Clifford Endres: Came to Turkey on Fulbright 1985 & have been around most of the time since. Taught at Bogazici, Ege, Baskent & Kadir Has Universities. Translated with wife Selhan much Turkish poetry & prose plus various articles on Turkish literature. Lives in Fener. Now retired & doing nothing, but doing it well.
Selda Y. Burma is an urban planner with a strong literary bent who has been working in the field of cultural heritage management and tourism since 2005.
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