Orhan Kemal: Cemile (Gemilé)
The latest addition to my website is Orhan Kemal's Cemile (Gemilé). This is a fairly realist tale about a cotton factory. A small group within the cotton factory are trying…
Aslı Erdoğan: Kırmızı Pelerinli Kent (The City in Crimson Cloak)
The latest addition to my website is Aslı Erdoğan's Kırmızı Pelerinli Kent (The City in Crimson Cloak). This novel is set entirely in Rio de Janeiro and tells the story…
İhsan Oktay Anar: Puslu Kıtalar Atlası [The Atlas of Misty Continents]
The latest addition to my website is İhsan Oktay Anar's Puslu Kıtalar Atlası [The Atlas of Misty Continents]. This a wonderfully inventive, quasi-historical, very funny novel set in late seventeenth…
Bilge Karasu: Gece (Night)
The latest addition to my website is Bilge Karasu's Gece (Night), a blistering post-modern, Kafkaesque parable which could be Turkey but also could be any other police state. There are…
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar: Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü (The Time Regulation Institute)
The latest addition to my website is Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü (The Time Regulation Institute). As part of his reforms, Kemal Atatürk decreed that every town should have…
Nedim Gürsel: Boğazkesen, Fatih’in Romanı (The Conqueror)
The latest addition to my website is Nedim Gürsel's Boğazkesen, Fatih’in Romanı (The Conqueror). Gürsel is one of the foremost contemporary writers but this is only one of two of…
Ahmet Altan: Son Oyun (Endgame)
The latest addition to my website is Ahmet Altan's Son Oyun (Endgame). Altan and his brother are both currently serving a lifetime prison sentence because of their alleged involvement in…
Güneli Gün: On the Road to Baghdad
The latest addition to my website is Güneli Gün's On the Road to Baghdad. This is an excellent picaresque novel using magic realism and clearly influenced by the One Thousand…
Adalet Ağaoğlu: Üç Beş Kişi (Curfew)
The latest addition to my website is Adalet Ağaoğlu's Curfew. This novel is set in Turkey, primarily Istanbul and Eskişehir, in June 1980, three months before a coup will take…
Yaşar Kemal: İnce Memed (Memed, My Hawk)
The latest addition to my website is Yaşar Kemal's İnce Memed (Memed, My Hawk). This is a classic Turkish novel about good vs evil, specifically the story of a young…