Blogs in July 2020

Human Landscapes from My Country 21st July 2020

Written during the Second World War while Hikmet was serving a thirteen-year sentence as a political prisoner, his verse-novel uses cinematic techniques to tell the story of the emergence of secular, modern Turkey by focusing on the always-entertaining stories...

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Red Dress in Black & White 18th June 2020

From the widely acclaimed author of Waiting for Eden: a stirring, timely new novel that unfolds over the course of a single day in Istanbul: the story of an American woman attempting to leave behind her life in Turkey–to...

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Anna’s Dance: A Balkan Odyssey 10th June 2020

It’s 1968. The world is in turmoil. So is twenty-thee-year-old Anna Rossi, who questions everything about her life, from her mostly Jewish heritage to her fear of intimacy. Summer in Europe with a childhood friend offers a perfect way...

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The Rug Bazaar 4th June 2020

Two American women. Two Turkish men. In exotic Istanbul everyone’s on the make. “A duet of stories that flies in the face of anything you’d think a love story could be. These are independent stories, yet, as a pair,...

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The Masquerade of Istanbul 1st June 2020

‘Quietness is a mysterious trait.’ This is the story of Fehmi who grew up in a liberal family in Istanbul but became religious later in life. In the summer of 1998, the time when political Islam is on the...

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