Shtakser reviewed Arabesk by Barbara Nadel
Review of 'Arabesk' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
A detective novel about poisoned wife of a popular singer turns into a story of multi-cultural contemporary Turkey, with its various religions and ethnicities. This time the background is the Yezidi community to which the murdered woman and her husband secretly belong, the poverty of the Kurds, and the story of a dying Greek woman confessing to murdering her eunuch husband and burying him under a fig tree many years go. And then part of the story is about popular music. Overall, as usual in these series, there is an amazing feel of the city - an ancient place with its prejudices, its tolerances, and its constantly emerging secrets. I love it.
