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Review: Features: Harem secrets laid bare Alev Croutier, whose grandmother lived in a Turkish harem, has based her new novel on her family's extraordinary history. Here she reveals the truth behind the fantasy of the odalisque
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I was born in an old house in Turkey which had once been the
harem of a pasha. It was a household largely of women, ruled by
Zehra, my paternal grandmother. Born in the final decades of the
Ottoman Empire, Zehra had lived in a harem in Macedonia (then the
last bastion of "Turkey in Europe") until polygamy and the isolation
of women were abolished by Sultan Abdulhamid in 1909. The noise of
my childhood is of people rushing about to no apparent purpose, the
perpetual dripping of water in the hamam (Turkish bath), and the
ghosts of bygone characters with veils and scimitars, causing havoc
in the ...
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