A writer finds solitude and salvation tracing the lives and deaths of three of her literary lights in a haunted and lyrical travelogue from NBCC Award-winner Tezer Özlü. An unnamed writer embarks on an obsessive journey through...Lasīt vairāk
An idealistic young man attempts to find his place in a changed world after incarceration, in this Turkish classic from the pioneering writer and activist, now available for the first time in English.Dreaming of a better life for her s...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Dec-2024, Other book format, Izdevniecība: Other Press (NY), ISBN-13: 9781590510285)
An idealistic young man attempts to find his place in a changed world after incarceration, in this Turkish classic from the pioneering writer and activist, now available for the first time in English.Dreaming of a better life for her s...Lasīt vairāk
NAMED A MOST-ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE MILLIONS Set in a changing Istanbul, this rediscovered 1940s classic from a pioneering Turkish author tells the story of a forbidden love and its consequences. Raised by h...Lasīt vairāk
The bestselling Turkish classic of love and longing in a changing world, available in English for the first time. It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity...Lasīt vairāk
The Irish-American physicist, academic and traveler John Freely wrote more than sixty lively books on travel, history and science before he died in 2017, aged 90. But It was Istanbul, where he emigrated with his family in 1960 to take...Lasīt vairāk
A knotty, postmodern tale. The quicksilver narrative slips between dream, memory and reality ... A beguiling enigma Financial Times A poetic masterpiece of world literature ... An oriental Kafka, enriched with the literary achievements...Lasīt vairāk
A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The citys crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman, which will haunt him for...Lasīt vairāk
A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade and discover life in 1920s Berlin. There, amid the citys bustling streets, elegant museums, passionate politics and seedy cabarets, a change meeting transforms his life forever. Caugh...Lasīt vairāk
A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The citys crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman, which will haunt him for...Lasīt vairāk
A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The citys crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman, which will haunt him for...Lasīt vairāk
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A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The citys crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman, which will haunt him for...Lasīt vairāk
Hasan Ali Toptas exquisitely weaves an enigmatic, mystical tale of memory and identity, displacement and belonging `Im a barber, he said. `I come from afar. Across lands already forgotten In an Anatolian village forg...Lasīt vairāk
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In a town far from his Anatolian village, and unaware of how he got there, Nori arrives at a barbershop where his memory escapes him. Hasan Ali Toptas exquisitely weaves an enigmatic, mystical tale of memory and identity, displacement and...Lasīt vairāk
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The bestselling Turkish classic of love and longing in a changing world, available in English for the first time. It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity...Lasīt vairāk
LONGLISTED FOR THE FT/OPPENHEIMERFUNDS EMERGING VOICES AWARD 2016 Toptas seems to me Orhan Pamuks equal ...He strikes me as just as gifted a writer Sydney Morning Herald Thirty years after completing his military service Ziya flees the spiralling...Lasīt vairāk
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A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The citys crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman, which will haunt him for...Lasīt vairāk
Deals with Middle East and Islamic culture. Rabelaisian in scope, this book offers the sights, sounds and scents of Istanbul, an unforgettable evocation of the city where East meets West, and a boldly unconventional mystery that plumbs the elusive na...Lasīt vairāk
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 Pamuks friendship with his daughter Ruya to provocative...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Aug-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury USA, ISBN-13: 9781632860613)
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Thirty years after completing his military service, Ziya flees the spiraling turmoil and perplexing chaos of the city where he lives to seek a peaceful existence in a remote village--of which he has heard dreamlike tales. Greeted by his old friend...Lasīt vairāk
Angry in Piraeus is the story of the creation of a translator, as Maureen Freely explores what it was in her childhood that led her to become a traveler across the spaces that exist between countries, languages, and forms. She offers rich...Lasīt vairāk
Bringing together the best of Sema Kagusuzs short fiction for the first time, this debut English-language publication has themes of identity, race (and particularly the plight of ethnic minorities), family secrets, and what happens when private...Lasīt vairāk
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LONGLISTED FOR THE FT/OPPENHEIMERFUNDS EMERGING VOICES AWARD 2016 Thirty years after completing his military service Ziya flees the spiralling turmoil of one of Turkeys great sprawling cities to seek a serene existence in a village of whic...Lasīt vairāk
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LONGLISTED FOR THE FT/OPPENHEIMERFUNDS EMERGING VOICES AWARD 2016 Thirty years after completing his military service Ziya flees the spiralling turmoil of one of Turkeys great sprawling cities to seek a serene existence in a village of whic...Lasīt vairāk
Sait Faik Abasiyanik was born in Adapazari in 1906 and died of cirrhosis in Istanbul in 1954. He wrote twelve books of short stories, two novels, and a book of poetry. His stories celebrate the natural world and trace the plight of iconic characters...Lasīt vairāk
In April 1956, C S Lewis, the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four intensely happy years, Davidman died of cancer and the author found himself alone again, and inconsolable. In...Lasīt vairāk
A literary discovery: an uproarious tragicomedy of modernization, in its first-ever English translation. Perhaps the greatest Turkish novel of the twentieth century, being discovered around the world only now, more than fifty years after its first...Lasīt vairāk
Recounts the authors shocked discovery of the true identity of her grandmother, a Christian Armenian with American ties whose parents had been killed in the Armenian genocide before she was adopted by a Muslim Turkish gendarme captain. ...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Oct-2011, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Everyman's Library USA, ISBN-13: 9780307700889)
After years of lonely political exile, Turkish poet Ka returns to Istanbul to attend his mothers funeral and learns about a series of suicides among pious girls forbidden to wear headscarves....Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Nov-2010, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Random House USA Inc, ISBN-13: 9780307593924)
A furor erupts when the Sultan hires a group of artists, under the direction of Master Uncle, to illuminate a great book in the European style to celebrate his reign at a time in which all figurative art is considered Islamic heresy, but the situatio...Lasīt vairāk
Set in Istanbul between 1975 and today, this title tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbuls richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique....Lasīt vairāk
Set in Istanbul between 1975 and today, this title tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbuls richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique....Lasīt vairāk
Set in Istanbul between 1975 and today, this title tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbuls richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Nov-2009, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Random House Inc, ISBN-13: 9780307266767)
Ending his engagement to pursue a married cousin, Kemal unsuccessfully woos the woman over the course of nine years, during which he amasses personal effects that reflect his obsession and render him a laughingstock among his peers. Ending hi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2009, Izdevniecība: Renouf Pub Co Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780676979688)
A sweeping, emotionally charged novel of the nature of romantic attachment and the strange allure of collecting — this is Orhan Pamuk’s greatest achievement.It is Istanbul in 1975. Kemal is a rich and engaged man when he by chance...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-May-2009, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Harry N. Abrams, ISBN-13: 9781590202098)
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A dark Conradian drama, set in a beautifully illuminated Istanbul, where the past is always with us.-Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow In October 2005, only a few months after her Turkish husband and five-year-old son...Lasīt vairāk
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Disappearing a few months after her Turkish husband is detained and her young son is placed in foster care, Jeannie sends a letter to an anonymous journalist detailing the factors that shaped her three-decade life in Turkey....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2008, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Harry N. Abrams, ISBN-13: 9781590200742)
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Disappearing a few months after her Turkish husband is detained and her young son is placed in foster care by the U.S. Border Patrol, Jeannie Wakefield leaves behind a letter to an anonymous investigative journalist detailing the political factors th...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Apr-2008, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781844671694)
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Recounts the authors shocked discovery of the true identity of her grandmother, a Christian Armenian with American ties whose parents had been killed in the Armenian genocide before she was adopted by a Muslim Turkish gendarme captain....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Sep-2007, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Three Rivers Press, ISBN-13: 9780307266750)
A compilation of essays spanning three decades of work presents an array of criticism, autobiographical writings, and meditations on such topics as the writing process, romantic and parental love, and differing attitudes toward art in the East and We...Lasīt vairāk
Jeannie Wakefield needs help. Her family is being held by the US authorities. M is a journalist and at Jeannies request she returns to Istanbul to investigate. She tries to be objective, but Jeannies husband is also Ms first love. Ms search for t...Lasīt vairāk
