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Should the past remain in the past, or should all stories, even the most painful, come to light. Orhan s inheritance is a book with a mission, giving a voice to history s silent victims. They found him inside one of seventeen cauldrons in the courtyard, steeping in an indigo dye two shades darker than the summer sky. Get an ad free experience with special benefits, and directly support reddit. Orhans inheritance, by aline ohanesian the new york times. Moving back and forth in time, between the last years of the ottoman empire and the 1990s, orhan s inheritance is a story of passionate love, unspeakable horrors, incredible resilience, and the hidden stories that haunt a family. Orhans inheritance springs from ohanesians own family story. A strange inheritance reveals troubling secrets for a turkish family. The book will be published by algonquin books, a branch of workman publishing, on april 7. When orhans brilliant and eccentric grandfather kemal is found dead, orhan inherits the decadesold business.
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