Gardens of Water: A Novel
αα»αααα 2008 Β· Random House
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Powerful, emotional, and beautifully written, Alan Drewβs stunning first novel brings to life two unforgettable familiesβone Kurdish, one Americanβand the sacrifice and love that bind them together.
In a small town outside Istanbul, Sinan Basioglu, a devout Muslim, and his wife, NilΓΌfer, are preparing for their nine-year-old sonβs coming-of-age ceremony. Their headstrong fifteen-year-old daughter, Δ°rem, resents the attention her brother, Ismail, receives from their parents. For her, there was no such festive observanceβonly the wrapping of her head in a dark scarf and strict rules that keep her hidden away from boys and her friends. But even before the night of the celebration, Δ°rem has started to change, to the dismay of her Kurdish father. What Sinan doesnβt know is that much of her transformation is due to her secret relationship with their neighbor, Dylan, the seventeen-year-old American son of expatriate teachers.
Δ°rem sees Dylan as the gateway to a new life, one that will free her from the confines of conservative Islam. Yet the young manβs presence and Sinanβs growing awareness of their relationship affirms Sinanβs wish to move his family to the safety of his old village, a place where his children would be sheltered from the cosmopolitan temptations of Istanbul, and where, as the civil war in the south wanes, he hopes to raise his children in the Kurdish tradition.
But when a massive earthquake hits in the middle of the night, the Basioglu family is faced with greater challenges. Losing everything, they are forced to forage for themselves, living as refugees in their own country. And their survival becomes dependent on their American neighbors, to whom they are unnervingly indebted. As love develops between Δ°rem and Dylan, Sinan makes a series of increasingly dangerous decisions that push him toward a betrayal that will change everyoneβs lives forever.
The deep bonds among father, son, and daughter; the tension between honoring tradition and embracing personal freedom; the conflict between cultures and faiths; the regrets of age and the passions of youthβthese are the timeless themes Alan Drew weaves into a brilliant fiction debut.
In a small town outside Istanbul, Sinan Basioglu, a devout Muslim, and his wife, NilΓΌfer, are preparing for their nine-year-old sonβs coming-of-age ceremony. Their headstrong fifteen-year-old daughter, Δ°rem, resents the attention her brother, Ismail, receives from their parents. For her, there was no such festive observanceβonly the wrapping of her head in a dark scarf and strict rules that keep her hidden away from boys and her friends. But even before the night of the celebration, Δ°rem has started to change, to the dismay of her Kurdish father. What Sinan doesnβt know is that much of her transformation is due to her secret relationship with their neighbor, Dylan, the seventeen-year-old American son of expatriate teachers.
Δ°rem sees Dylan as the gateway to a new life, one that will free her from the confines of conservative Islam. Yet the young manβs presence and Sinanβs growing awareness of their relationship affirms Sinanβs wish to move his family to the safety of his old village, a place where his children would be sheltered from the cosmopolitan temptations of Istanbul, and where, as the civil war in the south wanes, he hopes to raise his children in the Kurdish tradition.
But when a massive earthquake hits in the middle of the night, the Basioglu family is faced with greater challenges. Losing everything, they are forced to forage for themselves, living as refugees in their own country. And their survival becomes dependent on their American neighbors, to whom they are unnervingly indebted. As love develops between Δ°rem and Dylan, Sinan makes a series of increasingly dangerous decisions that push him toward a betrayal that will change everyoneβs lives forever.
The deep bonds among father, son, and daughter; the tension between honoring tradition and embracing personal freedom; the conflict between cultures and faiths; the regrets of age and the passions of youthβthese are the timeless themes Alan Drew weaves into a brilliant fiction debut.
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Alan Drew was born and raised in Southern California and has traveled throughout Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He taught English literature for three years at a private high school in Istanbul, arriving just four days before the devastating 1999 Marmara earthquake. In 2004 he completed a master of fine arts degree at the Iowa Writersβ Workshop, where he was awarded a Teaching/Writing Fellowship. He lives with his wife and son in Cincinnati.
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