Arcadia Public Library

A compilation of essays spanning three decades of work presents an array of criticism, autobiographical writings, and meditations on such topics as the writing process, romantic and parental love, and differing attitudes toward art in the East and West.

"Rescatada del olvido a finales de los noventa, esta tercera novela de escritor turco Sabahattin Ali--fallecido de forma prematura en 1948--es uno de los acontecimientos editoriales más llamativos de los últimos tiempos. Traducida a una decena de idiomas y con ventas cercanas al millón de ejemplares, esta historia de amor desdichado entre un joven turco y una pintora alemana se ha convertido en un auténtico fenómeno de culto en su país, sobre...

Written from behind bars, DAWN is the unforgettable story collection from one of Turkey's leading politicians, and most powerful oppositional voices. From the dynamic political force 'who has evoked comparisons to President Obama' ( New York Times ), Selahattin Demirtaş' stories capture the voices of ordinary people living in extraordinary times - from cleaning ladies and teenage laborers, bus drivers and factory workers, from a violent demonstration...

"A resilient Turkish writer's inspiring account of his imprisonment that provides crucial insight into political censorship amidst the global rise of authoritarianism. The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await the decision that will determine my future, just as he awaited his. I am unaware of my destiny, which has perhaps already been decided, just as he was unaware of his....

When a young Italian scholar is captured by the Turkish fleet and brought to Istanbul, he becomes the slave of an erudite man who could pass for his twin.

"A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic--a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingeria--the 29th state of the Ottoman Empire--located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension...