A young girl is sent to an island with a baby in her belly, after trying to burn herself. This is how the story of the Palace of Tears begins. She is forced to give up the life of princesses, dreams of wealth and collecting money, and her parents’ aspirations. She lives in exile and isolation with her maid, between memories of the recent past with her family and the loneliness that was imposed on her in the palace that her mother built on the island. Eyes and thoughts haunt her, but a surprise awaits her. There is a great love story that makes her accept life again. A novel full of stubbornness, pride, and rebellion, not devoid of joy, love, and life. The story of a girl searching for happiness, security, and freedom deals with the state of society between family disintegration, clinging to values, and looking forward to Western life at the end of the Ottoman era.
Şebnem Eşiguzel: Turkish writer, born in 1973, who studied anthropology at Istanbul University. She worked as a reporter and editor in several newspapers, magazines, and television channels, and is the author of many books, short stories, and novels. In 1993, her first book, The Future Looks Bright, was published, for which she won the Yunus Nadi Short Story Award. She then followed it with a book of short stories (Who Will Tell My Story?) and then with her first novel. My Old Friend's Lizard, 1996. Among her other books, Among the Delightful Women, are articles, (Sayyid Qadry's Story), Me, My Mother, and the Crows, a children's book), and her novels The Ivy, The Garbage Dump, The Procession, In the Shadow of My Eyelashes, and Venus. ) for which she won the Notre Dame de Sion Literary Prize in 2015, The Palace of Tears for which she won the Duygu Athens Novel Prize in 2017, The Girl in the Tree, and (Goodness). Her novels have been translated into many languages, and her works have received attention and praise.
