Ahmet Altan is one of Turkey's most significant authors and journalists. His first novel, Four Seasons of Autumn, published when he was 27, won the Grand Award of the Akademi Publishing House. His second, Trace on the Water, was banned for obscenity. Dangerous Tales, 1996, became a bestseller and sold more than 200,000 copies. His novels have been translated into many languages.Alexander Dawe was born in New York and now lives and works in Istanbul. He received a PEN translation fund to translate the collected short stories of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar. He worked with Maureen Freely on a new translation of Tanpinar's novel The Time Regulation Institute (published by Penguin in the US).
If Steinbeck had written The Godfather, it might have read like
this
*DBC PIERRE*
A deeply compelling and immersive narrative about love, desire,
loneliness and landscape. Ahmet Altan is one of the foremost voices
in Turkish literature and has much to say to the world
*ELIF SHAFAK*
An impassioned, captivating dance, a waltz between death and desire
that does not release you for even a single moment
*PHILIPPE SANDS*
Endgame is a complex and immensely readable book - insightful,
disturbing, irritating and riveting
*ANDREA WULF*
Extraordinary, delicious, wise, I admire Ahmet Altan's novels
* * LINN ULLMAN * *
His novels and nonfiction have sold millions of copies
* * THE NATIONAL * *
Great author, great literature: Ahmet Altan reopens the wounds of
love and history
* * LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE * *
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