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Dawn

by Sevgi Soysal ...

Translated by Maureen Freely ...

A searing autobiographical novel about a single night in prison suggests how broken spirits can be mended, and dreams rebuilt through imagination and human kindness“Like Pamuk’s Snow, Dawn is the Turkish tragedy writ small. In contrast to Snow, it places gender at its heart.” --Maureen FreelyIn Dawn, translated into English for the first time, legendary Turkish feminist Sevgi Soysal brings ... Read more

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A searing autobiographical novel about a single night in prison suggests how broken spirits can be mended, and dreams rebuilt through imagination and human kindness“Like Pamuk’s Snow, Dawn is the Turkish tragedy writ small. In contrast to Snow, it places gender at its heart.” --Maureen FreelyIn Dawn, translated into English for the first time, legendary Turkish feminist Sevgi Soysal brings
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Noontime in Yenisehir

by Sevgi Soysal ...

Translated by Amy Spangler ...

Series series Turkish Literature
A prism-like plot brings seemingly disparate lives together in this award-winning novel of love, betrayal, and political awakening. Set in 1960s Turkey, the story centers on Ali, Dogan, and Olcay, and vividly depicts the struggle between the older generation, content with the new (post-Ottoman) Turkey, and the rebellious young generation seeking change.In this unforgettable, epic portrait of 1960s ... Read more

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A prism-like plot brings seemingly disparate lives together in this award-winning novel of love, betrayal, and political awakening. Set in 1960s Turkey, the story centers on Ali, Dogan, and Olcay, and vividly depicts the struggle between the older generation, content with the new (post-Ottoman) Turkey, and the rebellious young generation seeking change.In this unforgettable, epic portrait of 1960s
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Walking

by Sevgi Soysal ...

Translated by Maureen Freely ...

Reading Sevgi Soysal today restores the volatility and violence of female concerns, and expands our horizons of understanding how inequality operates. —Helen Mackreath, The White ReviewWalking observes the braided lives of Elâ and Memet, two young people growing up in 1970s Yenişehir. Elâ is a girl swept up in the discomfort and excitement of becoming a woman. She plays dress up, trades secrets, ... Read more

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Reading Sevgi Soysal today restores the volatility and violence of female concerns, and expands our horizons of understanding how inequality operates. —Helen Mackreath, The White ReviewWalking observes the braided lives of Elâ and Memet, two young people growing up in 1970s Yenişehir. Elâ is a girl swept up in the discomfort and excitement of becoming a woman. She plays dress up, trades secrets,
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Dawn

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A searing autobiographical novel about a single night in prison suggests how broken spirits can be mended and dreams rebuilt through imagination and human kindnessIn Dawn, translated into English for the first time, legendary Turkish feminist Sevgi Soysal brings together dark humor, witty observations, and trenchant criticism of social injustice, militarism, and gender inequality.As night falls in ... Read more

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A searing autobiographical novel about a single night in prison suggests how broken spirits can be mended and dreams rebuilt through imagination and human kindnessIn Dawn, translated into English for the first time, legendary Turkish feminist Sevgi Soysal brings together dark humor, witty observations, and trenchant criticism of social injustice, militarism, and gender inequality.As night falls in
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A Thousand Splendid Suns

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After more than two years on the bestseller lists and over four million copies in print, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance.A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan’s last thirty years—from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding—that puts ... Read more

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After more than two years on the bestseller lists and over four million copies in print, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance.A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan’s last thirty years—from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding—that puts
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Where The Air Is Sweet

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by Tasneem Jamal ...

An epic saga that charts three generations of an Indian family in UgandaIn 1972, dictator Idi Amin expelled 80,000 South Asians from Uganda. Though many had lived in East Africa for generations, they were given ninety days to flee as their country descended into a surreal vortex of chaos and murder.Spanning the years between 1921 and 1975, Where the Air Is Sweet tells the story of Raju, a young ... Read more

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An epic saga that charts three generations of an Indian family in UgandaIn 1972, dictator Idi Amin expelled 80,000 South Asians from Uganda. Though many had lived in East Africa for generations, they were given ninety days to flee as their country descended into a surreal vortex of chaos and murder.Spanning the years between 1921 and 1975, Where the Air Is Sweet tells the story of Raju, a young
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A Strangeness in My Mind

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by Orhan Pamuk ...

Translated by Ekin Oklap ...

From one of our greatest, a panoramic new novel, his first since Museum of Innocence, bringing us into Istanbul's underground through the eyes of a struggling street vendor.Mevlut, an Istanbul street vendor, has spent his whole life selling a local alcoholic drink. It is the 1990s, and although there were once thousands of boza vendors walking the frozen streets of the city, Mevlut now cuts a ... Read more

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From one of our greatest, a panoramic new novel, his first since Museum of Innocence, bringing us into Istanbul's underground through the eyes of a struggling street vendor.Mevlut, an Istanbul street vendor, has spent his whole life selling a local alcoholic drink. It is the 1990s, and although there were once thousands of boza vendors walking the frozen streets of the city, Mevlut now cuts a
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Awakened by the Sheikh

by Diana Fraser ...

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A forbidden attraction. A voice he can’t resist. A love neither planned…At just 5’2”, Cara Devlin is used to being overlooked—until she speaks. Her velvet-smooth voice has landed her advertising work and, now, the role of personal translator to the King of Ma’in. It’s a position that pays well enough to fund the fresh start she desperately needs—far away from the country where her husband betrayed ... Read more

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A forbidden attraction. A voice he can’t resist. A love neither planned…At just 5’2”, Cara Devlin is used to being overlooked—until she speaks. Her velvet-smooth voice has landed her advertising work and, now, the role of personal translator to the King of Ma’in. It’s a position that pays well enough to fund the fresh start she desperately needs—far away from the country where her husband betrayed
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The Breadwinner: A Graphic Novel

by Deborah Ellis, Aircraft Pictures, Cartoon Saloon and Melusine, Nora Twomey ...

Deborah Ellis’s bestselling novel The Breadwinner, now available as a stunningly illustrated graphic novel.This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana, who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan in the late 1990s.Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out ... Read more

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Deborah Ellis’s bestselling novel The Breadwinner, now available as a stunningly illustrated graphic novel.This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana, who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan in the late 1990s.Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out
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My Forbidden Face

by Latifa ...

Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Her father was in the import/export business and her mother was a doctor.Then in September 1996, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. From that moment, Latifa, just 16 years old became a prisoner in her own home. Her ... Read more

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Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Her father was in the import/export business and her mother was a doctor.Then in September 1996, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. From that moment, Latifa, just 16 years old became a prisoner in her own home. Her
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Paradise

by Abdulrazak Gurnah ...

From the Nobel Prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an Africa on the brink of colonizationShortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award, Paradise was characterized by the Nobel Prize committee as Abdulrazak Gurnah’s “breakthrough” work. It is at once the chronicle of an African boy’s coming-of-age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the ... Read more

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From the Nobel Prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an Africa on the brink of colonizationShortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award, Paradise was characterized by the Nobel Prize committee as Abdulrazak Gurnah’s “breakthrough” work. It is at once the chronicle of an African boy’s coming-of-age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the
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Farewell

A Mansion in Occupied Istanbul

by Ayse Kulin ...

Translated by Kenneth J. Dakan ...

Focusing on the experiences of one particular family living in one particular house during these historic events, Ayse Kulin mixes fact and fiction, soap opera and Tolstoy, to bring to light the effects of such political upheaval on a nominally comfortable and affluent household: the monied and intellectual class who find that their stake in Turkish life and culture is far more precarious than ... Read more

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Focusing on the experiences of one particular family living in one particular house during these historic events, Ayse Kulin mixes fact and fiction, soap opera and Tolstoy, to bring to light the effects of such political upheaval on a nominally comfortable and affluent household: the monied and intellectual class who find that their stake in Turkish life and culture is far more precarious than
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