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624 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2012
He repeated aloud the names of his apprentices: red-headed Sefket Fiskeci was killed in the Caucasus, cut in half by a Cossack's sabre on some God-forsaken steppe; Orhan Fiskeci, his black-haired brother killed in Gallipoli; Omer Kutluer died of scurvy on the iron-red earth beneath the fortifications of Kerbala; Nagin Turkoglu fell on the outskirts of Jerusalem; and his youngest assistant, the illiterate Omer Atkan, was cut down by the last loyal Kuban Cossacks.......we see Mehmed Yildiz, the trader in oriental spices, preparing for a journey. In his thoughts, he wraps each of his apprentices in pale-green cloth and lowers him into the pit of his memory.......The Great War ended for Mehmed Yildiz when he vanished from life and entered the realm of tales