2017 Longlist
Orhan’s Inheritance
ABOUT
THE BOOK
When Orhan’s brilliant and eccentric grandfather, who built a dynasty out of making kilim rugs, is found dead, submerged in a vat of dye, Orhan inherits the decades-old business. But his grandfather has left the family estate to a stranger thousands of miles away, Seda, an aging woman in a retirement home in Los Angeles. Over time, Orhan begins to unearth the story that eighty-seven-year-old Seda so closely guards–a story that, if it’s told, has the power to undo the legacy upon which Orhan’s family is built and could unravel Orhan’s own future.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
Orhan’s Inheritance was selected as an Amazon Best Book of April 2015. It has been positively reviewed in Booklist, Kirkus and Library Journal.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Date published
13/03/2016
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Nominating Library