Baksheesh

By: Ruth Whitehouse and Esmahan Aykol

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Synopsis: Kati Hirschel, the owner of Istanbul's only mystery book store, is fed up. It all started when her lover Selim insisted that she behave like the Turkish wife of a respectable lawyer. Looking demure and making witty small talk were the only requirements. Then her landlord announced an outrageous rent increase on her Istanbul apartment.She has no desire to move in with Selim. She'd rather learn the art of bribing government officials in order to find a new place. Kati is offered a large apartment with a view over the Bosphorus at a bargain price. Too good to be true until a man is found murdered there and she becomes the police's prime suspect. In her second novel Esmahan Aykol takes us to the alleys and boulevards of cosmopolitan Istanbul, to posh villas and seedy basement flats, to the property agents and lawyers, to Islamist leaders and city officials-in fact everywhere that baksheesh helps move things along. Esmahan Aykol was born in 1970 in Edirne, Turkey. She lives in Istanbul and Berlin. She has written three Kati Hirschel novels. Baksheesh is the second and has been published in Turkish, German, French, and Italian. The first, Hotel Bosphorus, was published by Bitter Lemon Press in 2011.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781908524058
Related ISBNs:: 9781908524041
Publisher:: Bitter Lemon Press
Date of Addition:: 04/12/14
Copyrighted By:: Diogenes Verlag AG, Zurich, 2
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Travel, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers, Humor
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.