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4.9/5 Barnes & Noble Language English & Turkish Media type Print (Hardback) Originally published 2006 Subject Travel OCLC 61285623 | 3.8/5 Goodreads Country United States & Turkey Publication date 2006 ISBN 975-293-381-5 Genre Non-fiction Editor Anastasia M. Ashman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Seal Press & Doğan Kitap Similar Portrait Of A Turkish Family, The Flea Palace, Istanbul: Memories and the C, The Bastard of Istanbul, The Black Book | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tales from the expat harem discussion
Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey (Turkish: Türkçe Sevmek) is a nonfiction anthology by 32 expatriate women about their lives in modern Turkey, published by Seal Press in North America (2006, ISBN 1-58005-155-3) and Doğan Kitap in Turkey (2005, ISBN 975-293-381-5 Turkish edition, ISBN 975-293-372-6 English edition).
Edited by Anastasia M. Ashman and Jennifer Eaton Gökmen, two American writers based in Istanbul, it was an English language #1 national bestseller in Turkey in January 2006. Its Turkish edition, Türkçe Sevmek: Türkiye'de Yaşayan Yabancı Kadınların Gözüyle Türkler, contains a foreword written by the Turkish novelist Elif Shafak.
In May 2008, the book and its editors were featured on NBC's Today, on its occasional travel segment Where in the World is Matt Lauer?