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  • The Prisoner of Ankara

    A Novel

    de Suat Dervis ...
    Traducido por Maureen Freely ...
    An idealistic young man attempts to find his place in a changed world after incarceration, in this Turkish classic from the pioneering writer and activist, now available for the first time in English.Dreaming of a better life for her son, Vasfi’s mother encourages him to attend medical school, so he can become a great doctor. But Vasfi’s infatuation with the beguiling Zeynep, and his fiery temper, ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • In the Shadow of the Yali

    A Novel

    de Suat Dervis ...
    Traducido por Maureen Freely ...
    **NAMED A MOST-ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE MILLIONSSet in a changing Istanbul, this rediscovered 1940s classic from a pioneering Turkish author tells the story of a forbidden love and its consequences.**Raised by her grandmother in one of the famed yalıs, elegant yet crumbling, that line the Bosphorus, Celile occupies a unique space between the old world of the Ottoman Empire and the new ... Leer más

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  • The Museum of Innocence

    de Orhan Pamuk ...
    Traducido por Maureen Freely ...
    Now a Netflix series • From the Nobel Prize winner and "one of the great novelists" (The Washington Post) comes a stirring exploration of the nature of romance in late 1970s Istanbul.It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal and Sibel, children of two prominent families, are about to become engaged. But when Kemal encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation, he becomes ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Midaq Alley

    de Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Widely acclaimed as Naguib Mahfouz's best novel, Midaq Alley brings to life one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo in the 1940s. From Zaita the cripple-maker to Kirsha the hedonistic cafe owner, from Abbas the barber who mistakes greed for love to Hamida who sells her soul to escape the alley, from waiters and widows to politicians, pimps, and poets, the inhabitants of Midaq Alley ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Farewell

    A Mansion in Occupied Istanbul

    de Ayse Kulin ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Thief and the Dogs

    de Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Naguib Mahfouz's haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid pychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story.After four years in prison, the skilled young thief Said Mahran emerges bent on revenge. He finds a world that has changed in more ways than one. Egypt has undergone a revolution and, on a more personal level, his beloved ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Gardens of Consolation

    de Parisa Reza ...
    Traducido por Adriana Hunter ...
    A novel of love, family, and a fight for freedom in Iran featuring a "formidable and hard-to-forget heroine" ( Publishers Weekly).In the early 1920s, in the remote Persian village of Ghamsar, two young people dreaming of a better life fall in love and marry. Sardar brings his bride, Talla, with him across the mountains to the suburbs of Tehran, where the couple settles down and builds a home. From ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Breaking Knees

    Sixty-three Very Short Stories from Syria

    de Zakaria Tamer ...
    Wry, satirical and bawdy, Tamer's stories are always informed by his dark view of humanity and of Syrian society in particular. Through these glimpses of corrupt, fearful lives under a violent dictatorship, it is possible to discern echoes of the storm that has brought Syria to near-disintegration. Tamer's stories explore taboos and power relations, bringing together religion, politics and ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Last Chapter

    de Leila Abouzeid ...
    This thought-provoking, semi-autobiographical book tells the story of Aisha, a young Moroccan woman, and her struggle to find an identity in the Morocco of the second half of the twentieth century. Charting Aisha's path through adolescence and young adulthood up to the present, her story is told through a series of flashbacks, anecdotes, and glimpses of the past, all bound up with a strong, often ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Lamp of Umm Hashim

    And Other Stories

    de Yahya Hakki ...
    Traducido por Denys Johnson-Davies ...
    The first of several works in Arabic to deal with the way in which an individual tries to come to terms with two divergent culturesTogether with such figures as the scholar Taha Hussein, the playwright Tawfik al-Hakim, the short story writer Mahmoud Teymour and—of course—Naguib Mahfouz, Yahya Hakki belongs to that distinguished band of early writers who, midway through the last century, under the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Three Drops of Blood

    de Sadegh Hedayat ...
    The title story, Three Drops of Blood, follows the protagonist's increasingly unstable mental state through the repeated occurrence of three drops of blood, while 'Hadji Murat' depicts an almost Joycean epiphany in classically understated terms, as a man mistakes another woman for his wife. These are stories which, though set in a distinctive milieu, deal with universal truths and cut to the very ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Iqbal

    de Francesco D'Adamo ...
    Traducido por Ann Leonori ...
    When young Iqbal is sold into slavery at a carpet factory, his arrival changes everything for the other overworked and abused chidren there. It is Iqbal who explains to them that despite their master's promises, he plans on keeping them as his slaves indefinetely. But it is also Iqbal who inspires the other children to look to a future free from toil...and is brave enough to show them how to get ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro