A multi-generational family saga of Turkish women and their silk fortune, told through seven houses from the late Ottoman era to modern Turkey.
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A multi-generational family saga of Turkish women and their silk fortune, told through seven houses from the late Ottoman era to modern Turkey.
"Seven Houses chronicles the lives and secrets of four generations of remarkable women, sweeping readers from the last days of the Ottoman monarchy to Turkey's transformation into a republic. It is the saga of a silkmaking family as told through the seven houses they occupied.
From a grand villa in Smyrna in the early years of the 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...
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Adult love affairs and sensual prose; beauty tied to pleasure and hardship
Wartime backdrop and family tragedy; little graphic detail
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Passing faith and traditional Ottoman cultural-religious references
No fantasy magic present
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Ottoman collapse and Turkey’s rise as a modern republic shape the saga
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Child abuse themes; multi-generational hardship and coercion
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