Citlembik Publications is proud to present this delightfully engaging story of how Azize, an expatriate Englishwoman, and her husband Selim, an Ottoman prince from the exiled Osmanli dynasty, came to settle in a tiny village on the southern coast of Turkey after first moving there from Saudi Arabia. Told with wit and self-deprecating humor, the memoir is a tale not only of their trials and tribulations building a house and making it their home, but also of their involvement and interaction with the surrounding society, both local and foreign, with whom they become entertainingly enmeshed. The fabric of daily life in a small village and how it is touched by the arrival of foreign visitors and residents is colorfully described with wit, warmth and insight. This engrossing memoir by the writer of the Village Voices column in Cornucopia magazine is both serious and lighthearted. It is accompanied by black-and-white drawings by Trici Venola, an Istanbul-based artist.
John Freely wrote,
'Beyond the Orchard,' a beautifully written, witty and evocative book that should be read by all foreigners living in Turkey as well as by the Turks with whom they dwell, for this is a classic that tells of how people get on with one another at the village level in Anatolia, where communal living began ten thousand years ago.
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