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Rye, England, ca. 1884. Durch die unkenntlich gemachten Gesichter weiß Henri nie, wer auf ihrem Operationstisch landet. Für die örtlichen Schmuggler entnimmt sie den Leichen ihre Organe. Für die wirklich wichtigen Kunden stiehlt sie das Wissen der Toten. Doch dann liegt plötzlich der britische Thronfolger auf ihrem Tisch. »Als der Moritatensänger sein Lied anstimmte, wollte Henri ihm den Hals umdrehen.«
The Hemshin are without doubt one of the most enigmatic peoples of Turkey and the Caucasus. As former Christians who converted to Islam centuries ago yet did not assimilate into the culture of the surrounding Muslim populations, as Turks who speak Armenian yet are often not aware of it, as Muslims who continue to celebrate feasts that are part of the calendar of the Armenian Church, and as descendants of Armenians who, for the most part, have chosen to deny their Armenian origins in favour of recently invented myths of Turkic ancestry, the Hemshin and the seemingly irreconcilable differences within their group identity have generated curiosity and often controversy. The Hemshin is the first ...
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