A novel that shook Turkey to it’s core when it was written in 1967, it was immediately banned and has since been widely read and discussed, and even made into the top selling Turkish film of all time. Easily among the most significant pieces of literature written in the Turkish language.
“An Ape Novel”, which is a parody of science-fiction, is a long story that brings together three unlikely elements; humor, science-fiction, and Sufism. Events in Vienna, with its new title XB21, in 2075, inspires us to think on humanity’s future once more.
This novella takes place in 2075 and is written by Ayşe Şasa, one of the leading screenwriters of Turkish ci...
A blend of satire, science fiction and sufism, this novel presents a veiled look at our society today as a planet. Through the lens of a futuristic planet-of-the-apes style world, we are given an ominious glimpse at what kind of people we are becoming.
There is a woman who makes perfumes. She doesn’t simply make the perfumes, though. She expresses herself with them. When she is exhilarated, she makes one perfume, when she is enraged, she makes another. She names her perfumes, and because she names them, she owns them. Then there is a janissary, an elite Ottoman soldier, who falls in love with her perfumes. Neither of them have...
An intense novel written about the early days of the republic. We are given an artistic and historic perspective of the time during world war I, the war for independence, the hunger and poverty that followed, and the construction of a new state in the midst of it all. A bitter and glorious tale of the triumph of the human spirit over impossible odds.
She was engaged… The events of the past days were unbelievable… In the large living room which was in the basement of the two storey wooden building her fiancé’s parents were sitting… On the one hand, she was struggling with her depressing thoughts while on the other hand she forced her thoughts to return to the days before the engagement… She had ret...
During the First World War, ottoman soldiers fought on many fronts. Some of them were in Medina. They were surrounded. They were poverty-stricken. But they decided to do their best till the very end. They drank muddied water, eat bread made from palm kernel. They fought not just the enemy but also hunger, thirst, and the heat. DEFENSE OF MEDINA / The Desert Tiger is written to in...
İsmail Bilgin, who penned his accounts of many painful times for Turks during World War I such as; Sarıkamış-White Grief and Canakkale Legend, writes in his new novel, Defense of Medina, about the lesser known front of the war: the Hedjaz Front and the most important fort of that front; the defense of Medina...
Fahrettin Pasha, who had been assigned to Medina by 4th Army Commander ...
From the Anatolian backwaters. Sadık Yalsızuçanlar paints a literary watercolor of life in an Anatolian village in the 1970s. However, this village is anything but pastoral. For students following the traces of Said-I Nursi’s footsteps, life becomes complicated in any otherwise simple setting.
The human mind is a creative engine without limits.
In all of the arts which humans entertain, be it music or poetry or painting or anything else, the element of style is ever-present and yet ever elusive. From all formats and all mediums this book explores the styles and systems of those who have wondered something and written it down. It also covers the philosophy of language, the ...