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“maureen freely”

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  • Madonna in a Fur Coat

    by Sabahattin Ali ...
    Translated by Maureen Freely, Alexander Dawe ...
    Series series
    The bestselling Turkish classic of love and loss in a changing world'A heart-breaker . . . it has the kind of indefinably powerful impact of The Great Gatsby' Observer‘Deeply moving … transformative … a love story that I actually love’ Elif Shafak'It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Enlightenment

    by Maureen Freely ...
    A tense thriller about the return of an investigative journalist to Istanbul from America, the scene of Jeannie's teenage love affair with Sinan, a Turkish boy, as well as the place of operation of her father, a CIA agent. Jeannie is forced to confront her past when Sinan's wife asks her for help to regain her son, taken away from her by the American authorities when Sinan is arrested trying to ... Read more

    $16.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cold Nights of Childhood

    by Tezer Özlü ...
    Translated by Maureen Freely ...
    FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE TRANSLATION PRIZE**“A profoundly moving account of desperation, exhilaration, and endurance.”—**Kirkus ReviewsThe Bell JarGood Morning, Midnight, by one of Turkey’s most beloved writers.The narrator of Tezer Özlü’s novel is between lovers. She is in and out of psychiatric wards, where she is forced to undergo electroshock treatments. She is ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Grief Observed (Readers' Edition)

    With contributions from Hilary Mantel, Jessica Martin, Jenna Bailey, Rowan Williams, Kate Saunders, Francis Spufford and Maureen Freely

    by C.S. Lewis, Rowan Williams, Jenna Bailey, Kate Saunders, Maureen Freely, Jessica Martin ...
    The perennial classic: this intimate journal chronicling the Narnia author's experience of grief after his wife's death has consoled readers for half a century; this edition features responses from authors like Hilary Mantel, Francis Spufford, Rowan Williams, Jenna Bailey ...'An intimate, anguished account of a man grappling with the mysteries of faith and love ... Elegant and raw ... A powerful ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • 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

    $23.99 CAD

  • My Blue Peninsula

    by Maureen Freely ...
    My Blue Peninsula is a confession that fills seven notebooks, with a final notebook left mostly empty. In them, Dora Giraud tries to explain to her adult daughters why she remains in Istanbul after escaping death at the hands of extremists, and why she risks her life to campaign for the truth about the Greek, Armenian, and Assyrian genocides, ferociously denied for a century by the Turkish state ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Sailing Through Byzantium

    by Maureen Freely ...
    It’s one minute to midnight on 27th October 1962. The Cuban missile crisis is entering its final countdown as the world prepares for nuclear winter.But in Istanbul’s old bohemian quarter, a confederacy of free spirits has gathered around a baby grand to see the night out in style. The moment is captured in a legendary photograph.Behind them, dark ships pass along the Bosphorus. Some could be ... Read more

    $9.09 CAD

  • Under the Vulcania

    by Maureen Freely ...
    This erotic novella tells the story of the women who live on the foothills of the Vulcania and the pleasure dome where they live out their fantasies. Maureen Freely has also written Mother's Helper, The Life of the Party and The Stork Club. ... Read more

    $16.29 CAD

  • The Museum of Innocence

    by Orhan Pamuk ...
    Translated by Maureen Freely ...
    A sweeping, emotionally charged novel of the nature of romantic attachment and the strange allure of collecting — this is Orhan Pamuk’s greatest achievement.It is Istanbul in 1975. Kemal is a rich and engaged man when he by chance encounters a long-lost relation, Fusun, a young shopgirl whose beauty stirs all the passion denied him in a society where sex outside marriage is taboo.Fusun ends their ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Enlightenment

    A Novel

    by Maureen Freely ...
    In October 2005, only a few months after her Turkish husband and five-year-old son are detained by U.S. border patrol, Jeannie Wakefield disappears. She leaves behind in Istanbul a 53-page letter revealing a convoluted tale of political intrigue, intelligence operatives and Turkish teenage radicals, of a grisly murder and a dismembered body in a trunk. It is a grim and heartbreaking history of ... Read more

    $14.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Time Regulation Institute

    by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar ...
    Translated by Alexander Dawe, Maureen Freely ...
    A literary discovery: an uproarious tragicomedy of modernization, in its first-ever English translationPerhaps the greatest Turkish novel of the twentieth century, being discovered around the world only now, more than fifty years after its first publication, The Time Regulation Institute is an antic, freewheeling send-up of the modern bureaucratic state.At its center is Hayri Irdal, an ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Journey to the Edge of Life

    by Tezer Özlü ...
    Translated by Maureen Freely ...
    A writer finds solitude and salvation tracing the lives and deaths of three of her literary lights in a haunted and lyrical travelogue from NBCC Award-winner Tezer Özlü.An unnamed writer embarks on an obsessive journey through Europe, drawn to the gravesites of her literary idols—Cesare Pavese, Italo Svevo, Franz Kafka—putting her life, her writing, and her politics in conversation with theirs ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus