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Ahmet Altan
A coming-of-age story about freedom with an erotic edge set in modern Turkey - a society navigating great change, like the young male protagonist.
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An existential page-turner from one of Turkey’s greatest novelists
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"First published in Turkey in 2021 as Hayat Hanim"--Title page verso.
The third book in the Ottoman Quartet
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From the confines of his prison cell in Istanbul, one of Turkey’s greatest living novelists reflects upon hope, despair and the light literature can bring to even the darkest places.
A resilient Turkish writer’s inspiring account of his imprisonment that provides crucial insight into political censorship amidst the global rise of authoritarianism.
An existential page-turner from one of Turkey’s greatest novelists.
From the author of Like a Sword Wound
Weaving together tortured love affairs, political intrigue, power struggles, and social upheavals, Love in the Days of Rebellion offers a powerful and…
A sensual epic of a changing society set during the fall of one of history’s greatest empires.
With striking clarity and imaginative power, Altan evokes the traumas and upheavals of Ottoman history, showing how-over a hundred years later-the events and wounds of that time still resonate in…
A deeply compelling and immersive narrative about love, desire, loneliness and landscape. -Elif ShafakAltan’s Ottoman Quartet spans the fifty years between the final decades of the 19th century and the…
