About the Book: Summer Heat
Vivid, evocative and tender. Elif Shafak
In our family, secrets were buried deep like treasure, never to be spoken of...
1974. Melike should be happy: school is shut and her parents have stopped
hosting parties for their rowdy political friends. But shes scared. She can tell
from her parents urgent whispers about prison, invasion and military coups that
Istanbul is changing. So when the family relocate to a quaint village in the
south, Melike is hopeful life might get better. And for a while, it does. But
then her beloved father disappears...
2003. Nearly three decades have passed, and Melike has