Harem: The World Behind the Veil (25th Anniversary Edition)

A fascinating illustrated history of one of the strangest, and cruelest, cultural institutions ever devised. A worldwide best seller, translated into twenty-five languages. ?I was born in a konak (old house), which once was the harem of a pasha,” writes Alev Lytle Croutier. ?People around me often whispered things about harems; my own grandmother and her sister had been brought up in one.” Drawing on a host of firsthand accounts and memoirs, as well as her own family history, Croutier explores l