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Kendi Gök Kubbemiz

Yahya Kemal Beyatlı · 1961

Poems that place Istanbul's neighborhoods, sea and mornings inside you in harmonious verse.

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    Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar · 1954

    A peaceful memoir that celebrates the Bosphorus waterfront mansions, their gardens and the graceful life there in poetic language.

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    Aziz Nesin · 1977

    The comic struggle with bureaucracy of a man who is officially dead on paper.

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