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PoconoIstanbul |  | Author: Matthew Aquilone
Category: eBooks
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Sales Rank: 98621
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B0039NMOVS
Publication Date: February 22, 2010
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Product Description
Guy is a promising young photographer caught between chasing his dreams and working under the thumb of the famous and mercurial fashion photographer, Markus. When a last minute job takes him to Istanbul, Guy meets a mysterious older gentleman on a golf course that once belonged to the Sultan. Their afternoon together reveals to Guy some important truths about family, memory, and the work of life and love; and reignites his connection to his father, strained now after the tragic loss of his little brother, John, with whom they used to play the game as a child, and who is the novel’s posthumous narrator.
An American “Kite Runner” of sorts, the book travels between the ancient Byzantine City of Desire and the rapidly changing Brooklyn landscapes of Guy and John’s childhood and its hipster underground that Guy now occupies; flash forward then to the shiny fashion world, warts and all, and the fading, heart-shaped tub wonderland of the Poconos where Guy’s family has a country house near the golf course John loved, and where he is now interred.
PoconoIstanbul is a tale of lost and found, whether in the labyrinthine alleys of the Grand Bazaar, the pristine fairways of Pennsylvania or the quiet and unexamined parts of oneself. It is a courageous but humorous journey outward in the wake of tragedy; a story of brothers, fathers, boyfriends, girlfriends, money, art, history and the ever-uncertain future. Like Istanbul itself it straddles worlds and eradicates boundaries. A short but sweeping novel (50,000+ words) it literally spans the globe in its quest for a way back home.
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