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Raped by her uncle, a sheikh in a dervish order, teenage Meryem becomes an outcast for shaming her family, until her commando cousin Cemal is chosen to execute his defiant cousin, taking her instead to Istanbul, where the two encounter Irfan, a media celebrity professor, who joins them on a life-changing journey, in a novel that explores human rights violations against women in the Middle East. Reprint.