Description - Enlightenment by Maureen Freely
"That rare pleasure, a thriller that grips on every level, a bold and beautiful novel about history, memory and love." - Nicci French. This novel is set in a present day Istanbul, still full of secret groups, prosecutors and interrogators, where you can never be sure of intellectual freedom. It is a wonderfully complex plot, full of carefully drawn characters, who we see over a twenty-five year period when their lives constantly cross over, as they change from teenagers to adults. Maureen Freely is a controversial writer who is not afraid to criticize the Turkey she loves and writes about. She has defended Orhan Pamuk, two of whose novels she has translated, when he was prosecuted under Article 301 for insulting Turkishness, and she has also assisted Perihan Magden and Elif Shafak when they were prosecuted under similar articles. This book means she will probably be the next writer to face trial in Turkey.
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