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Elegant Effendi, an artist hired to create a book illuminating the Sultan's triumphant life, has been killed. The man who hired him, Enishte, has also been murdered. While on a recent trip to Italy, Enishte was entranced by painting that used perspective and figurative art abundantly. He encouraged his artists to use the same methods in their construction of the Sultan's book. However, this sort of art serves as an affront to Islam and may have led...
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English
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After years of lonely political exile, Turkish poet Ka returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral and learns about a series of suicides among pious girls forbidden to wear headscarves.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Selling Turkish spirits on the street and dreaming of becoming rich in a rapidly developing Istanbul, street youth Melvut Karatas elopes with the wrong woman and builds a family over decades marked by a series of dead-end jobs and an enduring sense of his unique destiny.
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
"Mevlut, an Istanbul street vendor, has spent his whole life selling a local alcoholic drink. It is the 1990s, and although there were once thousands of boza vendors walking the frozen streets of the city, Mevlut now cuts a lonely figure on snowy winter nights. Falling deeply into debt, and desperate to marry off his incompetent son and satisfy his mistress, Mevlut turns to his old friend Ferhat, who collects payments on electric bills. The partners...
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Publisher
Izdatelʹstvo "Inostranka"
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Russian
Description
"The story of boza seller Mevlut, the woman to whom he wrote three years' worth of love letters, and their life in Istanbul. Between 1969 and 2012, Mevlut different jobs on the streets of Istanbul, from selling yoghurt and cooked rice, to guarding a car park. He observes many different kinds of people... he witnesses all of the trans formative moments, political clashes, and military coups that shape the country... he never stops selling boza during...