Last train to Istanbul

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Ayşe Kulin: Last train to Istanbul (2013, Amazon Crossing)

382 pages

English language

Published Dec. 20, 2013 by Amazon Crossing.

ISBN:
978-1-4778-0761-3
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OCLC Number:
839391803

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Turkey has long been a safe haven for Jews, marriage between a high-ranking Muslim girl and a Jewish boy is strictly forbidden. But Selva and Rafael defy their parents and marry, fleeing to Paris in hopes of a better life, only to find themselves trapped in the path of the invading Nazis. A handful of courageous Turkish diplomats, protected only by the tenuous neutrality of their homeland, hatch a daring plot to spirit the exiled lovers and hundreds of innocent Jews to safety.

2 editions

Subjects

  • Interfaith marriage
  • Fiction
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Jews
  • History
  • Rescue
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Places

  • France
  • Turkey