what does "suggestive aside" mean here
The author offers glimpses of a more satisfying book. She includes a suggestive aside on the blending of French and Persian inspirations in the Ottoman palace-building of the early 18th century—as good an emblem for the empire's strained multiculturalism as you could wish for.

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what does "suggestive aside" mean here
The author offers glimpses of a more satisfying book. She includes a suggestive aside on the blending of French and Persian inspirations in the Ottoman palace-building of the early 18th century—as good an emblem for the empire's strained multiculturalism as you could wish for.

http://www.economist.com/node/5545349

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"Aside", in this sense, means a short passage which briefly covers a topic other than that of the main text.
"Suggestive" means that the author implied interesting things in this passage, but doesn't give further detail.  
The reviewer is saying that the author should have wrote more about Ottoman culture and left out some of the historical chronicling.

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