About the Book: The Silence of Scheherazade
September 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 Greek, a Turkish and an
Armenian family, this unforgettable novel reveals a city, and a culture,