{"product_id":"9781780600697","title":"Dark Journey: The legend of Kamelya and Murat","description":"Dark Journey is the disturbing, fast-paced story of a young Turkish woman's descent towards moral annihilation in the early twentieth century -one part Maupassant, one part One Thousand and One Nights. In the early Turkish republic, the options for an impoverished widow with a child are few, and the choices made by Kamelya lead to her estrangement from her son Murat. But blood ties, secrecy and fate bring them back together for a denouement that smoulders, like a Greek myth, with pent-up love and its explosive corollary, deep-seated hate. More than thirty years after the death of Irfan Orga, author of the cult memoir Portrait of a Turkish Family, his son opened an old attaché case and rediscovered a coffee-stained typescript tied up with string. This is Dark Journey. It springs from a sombre understanding of the ambivalence of human nature, a metaphor, perhaps, for the exiled Orga's Turkish republican homeland.","brand":"Eland Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135475269872,"sku":"9781780600697","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780600697_p0.jpg?v=1763715503","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780600697","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}