4.37 avg rating — 180 ratings

"The Gardens of Silihdar is a beautiful coming of age memoir by a late 19th/early 20th century literary figure, political activist, and chronicler of the cosmopolitan city of Constantinople during the Ottoman Empire. "

4.40 avg rating — 25 ratings

"My Soul in Exile is a powerful psychological novel of an expat artist coming home to the Ottoman capital of Constantinople on the eve of World War I."