{"product_id":"not-constantinople-9781945814099","title":"Not Constantinople","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eFred and Virginia, two expats living in Istanbul and working at the university, come home one night to find their apartment occupied by a family of Greeks.  Barred by a quirk of Turkish law from evicting them, Fred comes to a strange kind of understanding with their new squatters; he’s in Istanbul because the pay is good, and with the property in limbo he can ignore the rent, not to mention the paper-writing racket he starts with the Greek patriarch, selling term papers to his own university students.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween get-rich schemes and run-ins with Kurdish separatists, Fred watches the transformation of his neighborhood from a place with a kind of sad romance to a generic megalopolis, gobbled up by greedy developers and the city’s rapacious elite.  Lauded by T.C. Boyle as \"tight and imaginative,\" \u003cem\u003eNot Constantinope\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of a city in transition and the uncertainty of life in a foreign country.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Nick Bredie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49074060230907,"sku":"9781945814099","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/not-constantinople-9781945814099","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}