Beş Şehir
Essays that wander from Ankara to Bursa, exploring the soul of cities and the beauty of the past in a calm, poetic voice.
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Yaşar Ne Yaşar Ne Yaşamaz
The comic struggle with bureaucracy of a man who is officially dead on paper.
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The Time Regulation Institute
A wise satire that both amuses and makes you think, set in Hayri İrdal's strange life full of clocks.
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Boğaziçi Yalıları
A peaceful memoir that celebrates the Bosphorus waterfront mansions, their gardens and the graceful life there in poetic language.
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Zübük
A comic novel that skewers a cunning small-town politician, making you think as you laugh.
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Efsuncu Baba
A novel that describes quack healers and their gullible followers with a sweet-and-sour humor, calling us back to common sense.
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Mahalle Kahvesi
Stories that open onto the world of the neighborhood coffeehouse, its fishermen and its friends from the islands.