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  • MONEY MAKES US RELATIVES
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    MONEY MAKES US RELATIVES
    JENNY B. WHITE
    In the rural immigrant community of Istanbul, poor women spend up to fifty hours a week producing goods for export, yet deny that they actually 'work'. Money Makes Us Relatives asks why Turkish society devalues women's work, concealing its existence while creating a vast pool of cheap labor for the world market. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork among family produc...

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  • THE WINTER THIEF
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    THE WINTER THIEF
    JENNY WHITE
    "A deftly plotted and clever tale of intrigue, duplicity, and violence."— Booklist, starred review January 1888. Vera Arti carries The Communist Manifesto in Armenian through Istanbul's streets, unaware of the men following her. The police discover a shipload of guns, and the Imperial Ottoman Bank is blown up. Suspicion falls on a socialist commune that Arti's friends organized...

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  • THE SULTAN'S SEAL
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    THE SULTAN'S SEAL
    JENNY WHITE
    "A wonderful read…. An historical novel of the highest quality." —Iain Pears Rich in sensuous detail, this first novel brilliantly captures the political and social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Empire. The naked body of a young Englishwoman washes up in Istanbul wearing a pendant inscribed with the seal of the deposed sultan. The death resembles the murder by strangulation o...

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  • THE ABYSSINIAN PROOF
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    THE ABYSSINIAN PROOF
    JENNY WHITE
    "An immensely enjoyable read, richly textured and wonderfully atmospheric."—Sarah Graves Constantinople, May 1453. In the dying days of the Byzantine Empire, Isaak Metochites and his family are entrusted with a silver reliquary carved with the figure of a weeping angel and the inscription: Behold the Proof of Chora, Container of the Uncontainable. Four hundred years later, magi...

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