Novel set in 1950s HOLLYWOOD and EALING (London)
A Mind at Peace
Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
Era(s): Late 1930s
Heralded as the Turkish Ulysses (Wordsworth Classics, 2010), A Mind at Peace is a lyrical tribute to the beautiful city of Istanbul, set at the eve of WWII. Tanpinar memorably captures the anxieties of a cosmopolitan Istanbul family during the early years of the Turkish Republic, founded on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire in 1923. Both a historical novel and a love story, it addresses issues of language, music, tradition, politics and modernity and has received Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s highest compliment as ‘the greatest novel ever written about Istanbul’.
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