A Mansion in Occupied İstanbul Best Novel Award 2008
‘Set in İstanbul during the last days of the Empire, Ayşe Kulin!s novel accounts the collapse of the Ottomans… It is a story of human suffering and tragedy..
By choosing to tell her story of anera through the eyes of a particular family living in a particular mansion in a city besieged, Ayşe Kulin follows in the tradition of the great historical novel.
