Boundless Solitude

Selim Ileri

• Paperback | Engels | Turkish Literature
• Boundless Solitude tells the story of Handan Sarp, a soprano at the Istanbul City Opera who has struggled throughout her life to come to terms with he... Lees meer

Our Best Love Story

Mario Levi

• Paperback | Engels | Turkish Literature
• Our Best Love Story traces the end of a romance as an unnamed narrator wanders the streets of his city, attempting to endure his new solitude, taking ... Lees meer

Something Funny to Write about

Deniz Kavukcuoglu

• Paperback | Engels | Turkish Literature
• The lives of Turks, Armenians, Greeks, and Kurds take shape in this collection of 13 short stories set in modern Turkey. The poignant tales reveal the... Lees meer

Stepmother Earth

Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu

• Paperback | Engels | Turkish Literature
• Ahmet Celal, an officer in the Ottoman army, loses his right arm as the result of a bullet wound while fighting in the Battle of Gallipoli during Worl... Lees meer

Istanbul Blues

Buket Uzuner

• Hardcover | Engels | Turkish Literature
• The stories in Istanbul Blues are filled with Buket Uzuner's remarkable sensitivity and psychological insight, taking us into the memories and imagina... Lees meer

Istanbul in Women's Short Stories

• Paperback | Engels | Turkish Literature
• Istanbul is the cornerstone of this culturally significant collection of short stories written exclusively by women. Ranging from ancient Constantinop... Lees meer

Zarife

Deniz Kavukcuoglu

• Paperback | Engels | Turkish Literature
• Zarife aspires to leave her poverty-stricken existence and is drawn into the deceptively seedy world of the super-rich. She manages to become one of t... Lees meer

Mount Qaf

Müge Iplikci

• Paperback | Engels | Turkish Literature
• Mount Qaf tells the story of a Turkish journalist, Emel, who is trying to track down Zahide, an old Pakistani friend she met while studying in the Uni... Lees meer

Noontime in Yenisehir

Sevgi Soysal

• Paperback | Engels | Turkish Literature
• Seemingly disparate lives are brought together in a clever, prism-like plot in this award-winning novel. The story is based on three people--Ali, Doga... Lees meer

Two Green Otters

Buket Uzuner

• Paperback | Engels | Turkish Literature
• When her mother abandons her family, Nilsu loses faith in the world and everyone in it. Terrified of suffering the same fate, she breaks off relations... Lees meer

Europe in Women's Short Stories from Turkey

Gultekin Emre

• Paperback | Engels | Turkish Literature
• Turkish women roam European cities, some by choice, and others by kismet, in the 23 short stories in this collection. From the lustful tourist escapin... Lees meer

A Midlife Dream

Erendiz Atasu

• Paperback | Engels | Turkish Literature
• Fifty-something Feride has only just arrived at the painful realization that her sexual choice may not have been the right one. In looking back on the... Lees meer

The Disenchanted

Mehmet Eroglu

• Paperback | Engels | Turkish Literature
• With a twisting, captivating play on perception, this novel presents a frame story about how it came to be written. Containing two main narrative stra... Lees meer

Aeolian Visions/Versions

Mel Kenne, Saliha Paker

• Hardcover | Engels | Turkish Literature
• Aeolian Visions / Versions is a collection of more than 70 literary works, including poetry, short fiction, essays, and author interviews, translated ... Lees meer

Farewell

Ayse Kulin

• Paperback | Engels | Turkish Literature
• A sweeping story of the final collapse of the Ottoman Empire over the course of the First World War, "Farewell" is a novel of one particular family li... Lees meer

As the Red Carnation Fades

Feyza Hepcilingirler

• Paperback | Engels | Turkish Literature
• This is the story of a young female lecturer of Turkish literature who struggles as a woman and a mother to stake out her own claims to life. Followin... Lees meer