My Blue Peninsula is a confession that fills seven notebooks, with a final notebook left mostly empty. In them, Dora Giraud tries to explain to her adult daughters why she remains in Istanbul after escaping death at the hands of extremists, and why s...Daugiau...
The narrator of Cold Nights of Childhood grows up in a rapidly changing Turkey, where the atmosphere is nationalist, patriarchal, technocratic. As a misfit in search of freedom, love and happiness, she escapes to Berlin, is overcome by depression on...Daugiau...
A searing autobiographical novel about a single night in prison suggests how broken spirits can be mended and dreams rebuilt through imagination and human kindnessIn Dawn, translated into English for the first time, legendary Turkish feminist Sevgi S...Daugiau...
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Philip Arditti, best known for The Danish Girl and Game of Thrones. This definitive recording includes an introduction by David Selim Sayers.It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whos...Daugiau...
Other Colours is a collection of immediate relevance and timeless value, ranging from lyrical autobiography to criticism of literature and culture, from humour to political analysis, from delicate evocations of his friendship with his daughter Ruya t...Daugiau...
The Black Book is Orhan Pamuk's tour de force, a stunning tapestry of Middle Eastern and Islamic culture which confirmed his reputation as a writer of international stature. Richly atmospheric and Rabelaisian in scope, it is a labyrinthine novel...Daugiau...
A knotty, postmodern tale. The quicksilver narrative slips between dream, memory and reality ... A beguiling enigma Financial TimesA poetic masterpiece of world literature ... An oriental Kafka, enriched with the literary achievements of Islamic m...Daugiau...
The bestselling Turkish classic of love and loss in a changing worldA heart-breaker . . . it has the kind of indefinably powerful impact of The Great Gatsby Observer Deeply moving transformative a love story that I actually love Elif ShafakIt...Daugiau...
LONGLISTED FOR THE FT/OPPENHEIMERFUNDS EMERGING VOICES AWARD 2016Toptas seems to me Orhan Pamuks equal ... He strikes me as just as gifted a writer Sydney Morning HeraldThirty years after completi...Daugiau...
The perennial classic: this intimate journal chronicling the Narnia author's experience of grief after his wife's death has consoled readers for half a century; this edition features responses from authors like Hilary Mantel, Francis Spuffo...Daugiau...
Sema Kaygusuz is one of Turkeys leading literary writers. Her writing is lyrical and carefully stylised; it addresses contemporary themes of cultural identity and feminism, while also incorporating elements of Anatolian myth and mysticism....Daugiau...
The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a s...Daugiau...
The year is 1992. Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to investigate troubling reports of suicide in the small and mysterious city of Kars on the Turkish border. The snow is falling fast as he arrives, and so...Daugiau...
Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in 2006, was born in Istanbul, in the family apartment building where his mot...Daugiau...
Its one minute to midnight on 27th October 1962. The Cuban missile crisis is entering its final countdown as the world prepares for nuclear winter.But in Istanbuls old bohemian quarter, a confederacy of free spirits has gathered around a baby grand...Daugiau...
