Isles of the Blind (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781942515180)

Off the coast of Istanbul, the Jewish billionaire Yusuf Elmas, who once challenged the State's denial of the Armenian Genocide, has been killed in a harrowing boating accident. Five years later, his estranged brother, Avram, returns to the city to search out the truth behind his brother's suspicious death. Living in his brother's crumbling island mansion, befriending his enigmatic staff, Avram steadily unearths deeper layers of the tragedy. Yet the more his actions echo his brother's fraught experience, the more dangerious the exercise of digging up another person's history becomes. Through the lens of Avram's discoveries, Isles of the Blind explores the overlapping heritage of Jews and Armenians in a rapidly changing Muslim society. How should a man define himself, and towards what personal, religious and national obligations should our loyalties bend?

Author: Robert Rosenberg
ISBN-10: 1942515189
ISBN-13: 9781942515180
Publisher: Fomite
Language: English
Published: 11/09/2015
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 1.11d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2016
Foreword 05/20/2016