The Crescent Moon Fox is a compassionate, heart-breaking, brutal, and
occasionally, humorous, novel about Cypriot Turks. The reader
experiences the lives of the inhabitants of one particular village
during the lead-up to Independence from Britain and the tragic aftermath
of the post-Colonial era in Cyprus - and in particular, of two of its
young men: Zeki and Aydin. Zeki who, shaped and nurtured by the British
Colonial system, is destined for great things; and Aydin, a misfit in
his community who, in his own complex and disturbing way, achieves
greatness and redemption.
The span of the novel is from the nineteen thirties to the first decade
of the twenty first century - showing the life of the Cypriot Turks,
unique and distinct as a minority, in the lead-up to Independence and to
what they become in the modern era. It gives a voice to Cypriot Turks,
of all different backgrounds, and particularly to the illiterate rural
women of the Colonial Era. The Crescent Moon Fox is also a poignant
journey of discovery of one's true identity...