{"product_id":"9781035902385","title":"The Last Apartment in Istanbul","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Suman, Defne \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 03\/07\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 400 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781035902385,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was writing to her, so that she would know me not as this old person whose joints creaked when he rose from a chair, but as the real Pericles: the man who dreamt, deceived, envied, loved…Pericles Drakos has lived in the exquisite Circle Building for all of his seventy-five years. From its lofty windows, he has seen his little corner of Istanbul shift and transform. But as the area has become increasingly gentrified, Pericles has retreated into its shadowy corners. And when the pandemic hits, his isolation deepens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when Leyla, a sparky and beautiful thirty-something moves in, Pericles is enthralled. And when he discovers Leyla is a writer, he decides to put his own pen to paper and record his own fraught history: that of a Greek man subjected to the politics of oppression and intimidation in twentieth-century Turkey.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57293922959733,"sku":"9781035902385","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781035902385.jpg?v=1781598281","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781035902385","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}