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  • Uncoupling Language and Religion

    An Exploration into the Margins of Turkish Literature

    by Laurent Mignon ...
    Series series Ottoman and Turkish Studies
    This book is an invitation to rethink our understanding of Turkish literature as a tale of two “others.” The first part of the book examines the contributions of non-Muslim authors, the “others” of modern Turkey, to the development of Turkish literature during the late Ottoman and early republican period, focusing on the works of largely forgotten authors. The second part discusses Turkey as the ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pulse of Contemporary Turkish

    Poems from the New Millennium

    Translated by Bugra Giritlioglu ...
    by Bugra Giritlioglu, Aysegül Tözeren, Utku Özmakas ...
    Series series Middle East Literature In Translation
    The Pulse of Contemporary Turkish offers a unique glimpse into the vibrant world of Turkish poetry, featuring 172 poems by more than 60 poets, most of whom are still active today. From neo-lyrical verses to avant-garde experiments, this anthology reflects the rich tapestry of voices emerging from Turkey’s literary scene.With a balanced representation of gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity, ... Read more

    $56.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Tahir Khan Arzani ...
    This collection of contemporary poetry is written in four languages: English, Urdu, Persian & Punjabi, with a stunning presentation of background images that compliment the poems. He writes the traditional Ghazal along with experimenting with other contemporary styles of poetic form. All poetry and photo paintings are created by Tahir Khan Arzani. Includes also a thoughtful introduction composed ... Read more

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  • The Cloud Messenger

    by Aamer Hussein ...
    "A thing of beauty. . . . You must read it."—Nadeem Aslam"A shower of pleasures."—Julia O'Faolain"Sophisticated, cosmopolitan and seductive, the novel engages mind and senses alike."—André Naffis-Sahely, The Times Literary SupplementLike his parents, he too spent many hours sending cloud messages to other places, messages of longing for something that he knew existed otherwhere.London, that ... Read more

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  • Lady Life

    A Novel

    by Ahmet Altan ...
    Translated by Yasemin Çongar ...
    From the acclaimed author of I Will Never See the World Again, this poignant coming-of-age novel finds moments of remarkable humor in a present-day Istanbul rife with economic and political hardships.Fazıl’s comfortable existence studying literature is upended by his family’s sudden financial ruin, followed swiftly by the death of his father. Forced to sell his belongings and move to an old ... Read more

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  • Heaven Looks Like Us

    Palestinian Poetry

    Edited by George Abraham, Noor Hindi ...
    A love letter to Palestinian ancestors, their descendants, and their land, to all anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles, to a history that will never be forgotten, and to a future in which there thrives a free, free Palestine.Poetry has always served as a mode of resistance in Palestinian culture. In defiance of dispossession and decades of military siege, of a nakba that never ended, of ... Read more

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  • Lean Against This Late Hour

    by Garous Abdolmalekian ...
    Translated by Idra Novey, Ahmad Nadalizadeh ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    **Finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in TranslationA vivid, "mesmerizing" (New York Times Magazine) portrait of life in the shadow of violence and loss, for readers of both English and Persian**The first selection of poems by renowned Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian to appear in English, this collection is a captivating, disorienting descent into the trauma of loss and its aftermath. In spare ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Monster Portraits

    by Del Samatar, Sofia Samatar ...
    Relentlessly original and brilliantly hybrid, Monster Portraits investigates the concept of the monstrous through a mesmerizing combination of words and images. An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under ... Read more

    $12.35 CAD

  • Austerity Measures

    The New Greek Poetry

    by Karen Van Dyck ...
    'I remember caresses, kisses, touchingeach other's hair. We had no sense thatanything else existed'- Elena Penga, 'Heads''Nothing, not even the drowning of a childStops the perpetual motion of the world'- Stamatis Polenakis, 'Elegy'Since the crisis hit in 2008, Greece has played host to a cultural renaissance unlike anything seen in the country for over thirty years. Poems of startling depth and ... Read more

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  • Drifts

    by Natasha Burge ...
    'Surreal, vivid, haunting, mischievous, visionary' Lauren Elkin'Drifts is a stunning achievement. It invites us to see the world differently, as if through a kaleidoscope for the first time' Hassan Melehy'This is wonderful - we encounter not only the Gulf War and the falling Twin Towers of Manhattan but also London, Bahrain, Texas, Dhahran, souqs, sandstorms, slantways Arabic, and cats with ... Read more

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  • & Silk & Love & Flame

    by Birhan Keskin ...
    Translated by George Messo ...
    Birhan Keskin's poetry is finely-honed, powerful in its visuals, evocative and exact. Fluid and elusive, her poems explore the space between understanding and remembering, testimony and invention.This book selects work from six of Keskin's books, including her prize-winning collection Ba, and George Messo's outstanding translation enables us to appreciate to the full the work of this exceptional ... Read more

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  • Republic Of Love

    by Nizar ...
    First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. By far the most popular poet of the Arab Word, popular in the true sense of the word. The late Nizar Kabbani's selected poems appear here in English for the first time. So popular is he that one of his poems is the greatest love song in the Arab world, recorded by the legendary Egyptian singer Um Khalsoum and ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD