"Pera Palas: Finding a Community, Defining Westernization
Istanbul : Memories and the City
Orhan Pamuk
Book from Knopf
Release date: 07 June, 2005
When you hear the phrase "Orient Express" images of West meeting East, murder, intrigue and wealthy, distinguished or adventurous travelers arise. This, of course, is mostly due to Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express," which she wrote while staying at the famed Pera Palas, a hotel in Istanbul.
Sinan Unel's play, "Pera Palas," which opens on July 23 at the Boston Court as a co-production with the Antaeus Company, sets the main action at the hotel and follows the lives of a Turkish family through three generations. The play has won several awards, including a Massachusetts Cultural Council New Plays Grant."
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