Defne Suman: The Silence of Scheherazade [2022] paperback CHREF Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

acts of heroism and encounters with royalty

As Lottie begins to link the current victims to unsolved murders decades old

and global fame

Defne Suman: The Silence of Scheherazade [2022] paperback CHREF Walt WhitmanSeptember 1905. At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the ancient city of Smyrna, Scheherazade is born to an opium dazed mother. At the very same moment, an Indian spy sails into the golden hued, sycamore scented city with a secret mission from the British Empire. When he leaves, 17 years later, it will be to the smell of kerosene and smoke as the city, and its people, are engulfed in flames. Told through the intertwining fates of a Levantine, a