Seven Houses

An exotic and beautiful story (Isabel Allende) chronicling the lives of four generations of remarkable women, sweeping readers from the last days of the Ottoman monarchy to Turkey's transformation into a republic and the present day backlash.

A highly imaginitive family saga...Croutier's measured prose is artistic and sensuous (San Francisco Chronicle) as the story of a silkmaking family iss told through the houses they occupied. From a grand villa in Smyrna in the early twentieth century to a silk plantation in the foothills of Mount Olympus, from a tiny house in a sleepy town to an apartment in a modern urban high-rise, the family's dwellings reflect its fortune's rise and fall. As communal baths and odalisques give way to movies and cell phones, four unique yet powerfully linked women experience all of life's hardships and pleasures.

Author: Alev Lytle Croutier
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 09/01/2003
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.73h x 5.39w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9780743444149

About the Author
Alev Lytle Croutier, is the only Turkish woman to be published in as many as twenty countries. She is the author of the novel The Palace of Tears and two works of nonfiction, Harem: The World Behind the Veil and Taking the Waters. She has also written and directed films, including Tell Me a Riddle, based on a novella by Tillie Olsen. Born and raised in Turkey, Croutier lives in San Francisco and Paris.