Contributions

  • Göknar, Erdağ M. - Contributor

Publication

2008 - Archipelago Books, Brooklyn, NY, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

111,750 words, Guess

Page Count

447 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780979333057
  • Open LibraryOL18725509M

Classifications

  • DDC894/.3533
  • LCCPL248.T234 H8913 2008
  • LCCPL248.T234H8913 2008

Description

Surviving the childhood trauma of his parents' untimely deaths in the early skirmishes of World War I, Mümtaz is raised and mentored in Istanbul by his cousin Ihsan and his cosmopolitan family of intellectuals. Having lived through the tumultuous cultural revolutions following the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of the early Turkish Republic, each is challenged by the difficulties brought about by such rapid social change. Now in 1939, the promise of modernization and progress has given way to crippling anxiety rather than hope for the future. Mümtaz takes refuge in the fading past, immersing himself in literature and music, but when he falls in love with Nuran, a complex woman with demanding relations, he is forced to confront the challenges of the world at large. --Publisher.

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