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The Palace of Tears

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Inspired by the true romance of the author's great-great-grandparents, The Palace of Tears is a tale of forbidden passion, true love and fate set against the exotic backdrop of 19th century Paris and Istanbul. In a tiny shop in Paris, a French winemaker spies a miniature portrait of a Turkish woman with one blue eye, the other yellow. That night he dreams of her and in the morning abandons both family and country to find her and his destiny.

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Croutier's dreamy tale explores the issue of destiny and kicks the traditional romance novel up a notch with its smart epigraphs and clever (if ultimately intrusive) historical asides. readers Laura Esquivel and Isabel Allende will likely find Croutier's novel a pleasant distraction. The book's small size and odalisque cover should prove a draw, Advance praise for Alev Lytle Croutier's "Alev Croutier's grown-up fairy tale, with its strangely mesmerizing events, operates in a wonderful space between story and history and lures the reader into that place directly." -- Diane Johnson, author of Le Mariage "This is an enchanting tale of love: a man dreams of a woman, while she dreams of a man who is dreaming of her. It reminds me of Silk by Alessandro Baricco, and One Thousand and One Nights, but Alev Croutier has a voice of her own, soft and poetic, like music in a Turkish garden." -- Isabel Allende, author of Daughter of Fortune "Of all the adventures Scheherazade could narrate, only one was forbidden: a maddening erotic passion between an Eastern woman and a Western man. And that is precisely what Alev Croutier achieves. In The Palace of Tears, we get entangled in the lovers' impossible situation as one could expect. But all this is done with the talent of a sophisticated storyteller, who used cinematic imagery to excite our sensuality, making us smell the flowers, taste the wines, or simply gaze at the colorful miniature or overwhelming sunsets." -- Fatima Mernissi, author of Dreams of Trespass "In The Palace of Tears, Alev Croutier has woven a rich tapestry combining the Dionysian eastern opulence of the past century with a compellingly sensual tale of oneman's quest for the woman who may fulfill his dreams--yet shatter his touch with reality." -- Katherine Neville, author of The Eight "The Palace of Tears is at once exquisitely distilled and intensely dramatic. Reading it is a rare experience. Like opening a pomegranate and finding inside it a panoramic sweep of history, an amazing voyage, a mingling of two cultures, and a grand passion--a passion sparked by an unforgettable pair of eyes: one blue, one yellow." -- Noelle Oxenhandler, author of Eros of Parenthood


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780385334884
  • Publisher: Delacorte Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Delacorte Press
  • Height: 199 mm
  • No of Pages: 171
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Width: 136 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0385334885
  • Publisher Date: 07 Nov 2000
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 277 gr


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