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"Vendela Vida's The Lovers is a spare and haunting meditation on how travel can bring us full circle back to the place from which we should have started. I read it over two days and dreamed about it the second night." (Francine Prose, author of GOLDENGROVE )
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Characters edit
- Yvonne: Widow who travels to Turkey
- Peter: Deceased husband of Yvonne
- Aurelia: Yvonne's daughter
- Ahmet: Add a description of this character.
- Carol
- Mustafa
- Aylin
- Matthew: Yvonne and Peter's son.
- Deniz
- Mr. Çelik
- Jimson
- Ali
- Mehmet
- Lawrence
- Callie
- Koray
- Henry
- Ataturk
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First Sentence edit
When half an hour had passed and there was still no sign of a white Renault, Yvonne began to fear she'd been scammed.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Vendela Vida (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780060828394
Page Count: 225
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780060828394
Page Count: 225
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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