Description
| Product ID: | 9789774169793 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | EG |
| Title: | A Recipe for Daphne |
| Subtitle: | A Novel |
| Authors: | Author: Nektaria Anastasiadou |
| Page Count: | 326 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating ELIF SHAFAK'S NEW YORK TIMES ISTANBUL READING LISTA GREAT GROUP READS SELECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 RUNCIMAN AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDAt the neighborhood café where pastry chef Kosmas, charming widower Fanis, and other Rum—Greek Orthodox Christian—friends meet regularly for afternoon tea, American-born Daphne arrives with her elderly aunt. Daphne unsettles hearts, provokes jealousies, and stirs up memories of the 1955 Istanbul pogrom, forcing Kosmas and Fanis to confront their painful history in order to risk new beginnings. A shrewd and humorous tale, A Recipe for Daphne invites the reader into the kitchens, loves, and secret lives of Istanbul's most ancient community. ELIF SHAFAK''S NEW YORK TIMES ISTANBUL READING LIST |
| Imprint Name: | Hoopoe |
| Publisher Name: | The American University in Cairo Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-02-02 |