At the Breakfast Table

Told from four different perspectives, At the Breakfast Table is a story of hidden histories and family secrets, from the author of The Silence of Scheherazade.Buyukada, Turkey, 2017. In the glow of a late summer morning, family gather for the 100th birthday of the famous artist Shirin Saka. It ought to be a time of fond reminiscence, looking back on a long and fruitful artistic career, on memories spanning almost a century.But the deep past is something Shirin has spent a lifetime trying to conceal. Her grandchildren, Nur and Fikret, and great-grandchild, Celine, do not know what she's hiding, though they are intimately aware of the secret's psychological consequences. The siblings invite family friend and investigative journalist Burak along to interview Shirin - in celebration of her centenary, and also in the hope of persuading her to open up.Eventually Shirin begins to express her pain the only way she knows how. She paints a story onto her dining room wall, revealing a history wiped from public consciousness and generations of her family's history.'Fiercely intelligent, finely textured and achingly beautiful.' Elif Shafak

ISBN:	9781800247000
Publisher:	Head of Zeus
Imprint:	Apollo
Published date:	01 Sep 2022
DEWEY:	894.3534
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	416
Weight:	616g
Height:	158mm
Width:	237mm
Spine width:	39mm

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