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Aylin Kindle Edition

by Ayşe Kulin (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 400 ratings
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Aylin’s body was found in her garden, her hair immaculately styled as usual. Her death came as a shock—after all, who would have wanted someone so admired and talented dead? Who—among the many she’d helped, the few she’d hurt, and all those she’d left behind—might have been driven to murder?

In the course of Aylin’s life, she had been many things: a skinny little girl, a young woman blossoming into a beauty, a princess married to a controlling Libyan prince, a broke medical student determined to succeed. She’d been a seductress, a teacher, a renowned psychiatrist, and a Turkish immigrant remarkably at home as an officer in the US Army. Through it all, she’d loved, been in love, and pursued truth without surrender. Whatever role she’d found herself in, she’d committed to it fully and lived it with her heart, mind, and soul.

From internationally bestselling Turkish author Ayşe Kulin comes Aylin, the story of one woman’s life as she makes her passionate way toward a strange, sudden end.

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One of Turkey’s most beloved authors, Ayşe Kulin is known for her captivating stories about human endurance. In addition to penning internationally bestselling novels, she has also worked as a producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter for numerous television shows and films. Her novel Last Train to Istanbul won the European Council of Jewish Communities Best Novel Award and has been translated into twenty-three languages.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00X7S0F8O
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amazon Crossing (October 6, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 6, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3532 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 284 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 400 ratings

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Ayse Kulin

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One of Turkey's most beloved authors, with more than ten million copies of her books sold, Ayşe Kulin is known for captivating stories about human endurance. In addition to penning internationally bestselling novels, she has also worked as a producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter for numerous television shows and films. Her novel Last Train to Istanbul won the European Council Jewish Community Best Novel Award and has been translated into twenty-three languages.

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3.8 out of 5 stars
3.8 out of 5
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B. F. Harrison
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2016
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This book is about an amazing woman who, defying all odds, wound up at the top of her precession, but had difficulties with her home life. She was kind and generous, one whom everyone loved. She was, at once, elegant, full of grace, and beautiful. Somehow, she was murdered.

This is the story of her life and tragic death. A must read.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good read, great insights!
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2015
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Easy read but nice novel with insights on Turkish Istanbul society. Good story on the challenges and resilience women face in life!
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Tulip
3.0 out of 5 stars A real murder case dressed up as a novel.
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2017
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At first I pondered, while reading, that this Turkish novel was definatly from another writing culture than my normal Western books. It starts not even with the birth of the heroine but with her great grandfather. Well in fact it starts with Aylin's death. Was it murder? Was this based on a real person? Then the turns towards the past and starts with her ancestors and continues to describe her whole life.It seems we pass five husbands and numorous flings in the blink of an eye only to slow down to tell about several patients she treated. She is described as a very good doctor but a very shallow person in real life who is fun to be with but who gets easily bored with people and then moves on to the next man. She reminded me of a friend of mine who is the same with men.
The story stops abrupt with her death leaving a couple of suspects: 1) the husband she refuses to divorce who has connections with the Clintons, 2) Army connections because she is digging in experiments 3) a violent ex patient.
Exactly that ending made me wonder if this was indeed based on a real person and the book a kind of "I accuse". And after some digging I found out that the real Aylin was Aylin Radomisli-Cates, married to Kelvin Kline's father in law. And indeed this Aylin was found dead as described. The writer a relative of hers. I ran some Turkish newspaper interviews through Google translate. It seems not all the familymembers agreed with the picture of Aylin in the book.
Although I do not like the book as a novel (no depth) it still had me mesmerised because it is a real murder case and I have a law degree. I wished I knew - now 20 years after the murder - who had done it. But even her ex is now dead.
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Jessica engerman
5.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing character portrayal
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2018
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I found Aylin intriguing to say the least. I really love the way that she was depicted as living life to its fullest and living outside of social norms if need be.
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NenetteU
2.0 out of 5 stars Frustrating Ending
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2015
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Suicide might have been implied, or even murder, but however manner Aylin died, it was not clear. As colorful as her life had been, with the vibrant reds, yellows and greens equally competing with the blacks, grays and blues, I felt that the author did not do justice to the story by snuffing her life just like that. I hate stories with so much build up, only to be cut abruptly, and without warning, you're already looking at the last page! Was the author being true to Aylin's character through to the end: still so full of surprises, even in death? Is this one of those kinds where the author leaves it up to the reader to speculate? Or am I just too jet lagged that I missed a very important part?

Aylin is a novel written and related in a fashion akin to a biography, that I found myself going back on the front matter to check if I was really reading fiction. It was a good story, really, but I just couldn't get over the way it ended, so two and a half stars.
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Cynthia Marshall
4.0 out of 5 stars What a terrible disappointment to finish the very well-written story & have ...
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2016
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I had a little bit of a hard time getting started, but shortly thereafter had no problem keeping my interest peaked. I'm assuming that was because the bizarre introduction led me to the ever-constant watch for the "who dunnit." And THAT is the reason for the 4 star rating rather than 5. What a terrible disappointment to finish the very well-written story & have no!!!! closure.
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RLH1957
5.0 out of 5 stars Ayşe Kulin is one of my favorite foreign writers.
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2017
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I loved it, my mom loved it... But I am an Ayşe Kulin fan. Every book she writes that gets translated to English I grab.
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Lee K
1.0 out of 5 stars tory was rambling with too much info on nothing - ...
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2016
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tory was rambling with too much info on nothing - no plot and no resolution to the death of the heroine.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Insight into turkey
Reviewed in India on December 7, 2017
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The second novel read in a row,she gives a rare insight of Turkish men and women, I find her novels are simple and easily readable with good insights.
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Annette B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 17, 2016
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Thoroughly enjoyed it
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating, flawed heroine
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 30, 2016
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I enjoyed this story, it's unusual style of story telling. It loses one star for the lack of final resolution
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Judi Dwyer
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in Australia on January 14, 2016
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A bit confusing & jumped all over the place. An interesting story but a bit long winded.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A confusing story
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 21, 2016
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I read this book till the end, looking for an explanation for the complexity of the main character's emotional reasoning, but didn't find it. Other reviews have referenced the difficulties of translation to English and I can appreciate that. However, IMHO, the story shifts too much to give the reader any real means to understand what the main character wanted from her relationships and the bizarre death of the character was hooked somewhat precariously on the acrimony of her final marriage. Gave the book 3 stars, but if being honest, not sure why. And that in essence is perhaps what is wrong with the story....I am not sure what it actually saying!
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