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.

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.

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.

An ancient story through a modern medium. Hasan Harakani’s life is told by way of a modern film-maker on a mission to make a documentary. The film-maker travels to the faraway city of Kars to meet with the sheikhs of a Harakani Lodge and to see Harakani through the eyes of people who have dedicated their lives to understanding his teachings. We can also see the relationship of...

A Journey of Love This novel ties together the lives of a girl who is abducted from her family when she is 7 years old to be raised in the Ottoman harem and a young woman who is getting married at about that same time. Their stories are told side by side, smoothly shifting back and forth between narratives and their connection is tantalizingly concealed until late in the story. There...

A man is sitting at a kitchen table. There are two carnations in a vase on the table, one white and one red. He wonders to himself ‘Why are there two carnations in a vase on the table, one white and one red?’ And then he hears an answer. ‘You don’t like the two of us here?’ Surprised, he asks ‘Which one of you said that?’ ‘It doesn&rsq...

A European style romance on a Middle-Eastern backdrop. A novel which examines all of issues of being a modern Muslim woman. She lives in Fatih, the most conservative muslim neighborhood of Istanbul. She has her own career. Her husband goes to Bosnia for war. In the mean time, there is another man at home who is approaching her. The tremor which shook the earth and the souls of Turkey...