{"product_id":"love-in-the-days-of-rebellion","title":"Love in the Days of Rebellion","description":"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLike a Sword Wound\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eweaves an “ambitious and intelligent thriller about love and war” in the early twentieth-century Ottoman Empire (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKirkus Reviews)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLove in the Days of Rebellion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is the second installment in Ahmet Altan’s masterful saga of Turkish history, The Ottoman Quartet. Following the vast and vivid cast of characters introduced in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLike A Sword Wound\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, it opens with the attempted suicide of Hikmet Bey, the son of the sultan’s personal physician.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHikmet is driven to this extreme in an attempt to forget his wife, the beautiful and proud Mehpare Hanim. While Hikmet is recovering in a hospital in Thessaloniki, slowly regaining his strength and will to live, radical changes are afoot in the Ottoman capital. The power of the sultan is eroding, a rebellion is brewing, and violence erupts on the streets of Istanbul. It is the eve of the 1909 countercoup, an event that will lead to the Empire’s collapse.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith striking clarity and imaginative power, Altan evokes the traumas and upheavals of Ottoman history, showing how the events and wounds of that time still resonate in the tensions and contradictions of today’s Turkey.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Ahmet Altan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50602143678760,"sku":"ING-ENG-2774","price":26.98,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0950\/5983\/7224\/files\/41MHDWKOZkL.jpg?v=1767116513","url":"https:\/\/cantstore.ca\/products\/love-in-the-days-of-rebellion","provider":"CANT Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}