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Paperback The Rage of the Vulture (Norton Paperback Fiction) Book

ISBN: 0393313085

ISBN13: 9780393313086

The Rage of the Vulture (Norton Paperback Fiction)

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It is May 1908 and the Ottoman world is crumbling. Robert Markham, an Englishman in Constantinople, is newly posted to the British legation with his imperious wife and overly curious son. Markham's hidden life is about to make itself known as he forgets familial and patriotic ties in order to absolve a deep-seated guilt. Twelve years before, he had been involved with an Armenian woman. On the evening of their engagement, the Armenian massacres erupted. Saved by his British citizenship, he witnessed the brutal rape and murder of his fiancee. Amid the breakdown of the Turkish empire, he now seeks revenge. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 5 stars
Better than "Sacred Hunger"

An odd, suspenseful and gripping story. It reminds of Conrad or Trollope. There is a plot, but the characters are to the fore, deeply drawn, and never faked. The suspense comes from watching the characters make choices, not just the plot. (It is NOT a post-modern novel about a novelist writing a novel about a novelist writing a novel about ... as so many modern novels are.) Better in all respects than his bestter known "Sacred...

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Rated 5 stars
Powerful, disturbing and totally absorbing.

This novelist's themes are invariably unusual and gripping, reminiscent in some ways of Joseph Conrad in their relentless - and uncomfortable - exploration of the darker recesses of the human spirit. "The Rage of the Vulture" is set in the false dawn of the Young Turk revolution that promised so much, as it swept away the tyranny of tyranny of Abdul Hamid and which offered a brief glimpse of ethnic harmony before plunging...

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Rated 5 stars
A novel of intrigue by a master of historical fiction!

The Armenian massacres of 1896, in which the fiancee of the protagonist was raped and then murdered, provide the point of attack for "Rage of the Vulture." Twelve years have passed, and the protagonist, an Englishman named Robert Markham, now married and a father, is posted to Constantinople in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire. Determined to avenge the death of his former fiancee, Markham becomes involved in Byzantine...

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Rated 5 stars
Historical fiction at its very best

A wonderfully convincing novel set in the crumbling Ottoman empire in the early part of the century. It paints a quite magical picture of a multi-ethnic Istanbul and the "hero" (of sorts) is compelling from beginning to end. I am amazed this has never been filmed.

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What a Film This Would Make!

This book has everything -- I'm surprised it hasn't been bought up by Merchant-Ivory and made into the next "English Patient". I'm a big fan of Unsworth's now, having first read "The Hide" -- a strange and wonderfully affecting novel. "Sacred Hunger" is next on my list. "Vulture" is set in 1908 with flashbacks to an incident which happened 12 years previously. The themes include human corruption, loss of innocence (typical...

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