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Robert Finn's translation of Turkish author Nazli Eray's Orphée makes available to the English-language reader a rewriting of the myth from the perspective of Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus. Eray's surrealistic version takes place in a hot resort town in contemporary Turkey. The setting of an archaeological dig gives a connection to the past and literally to the underworld. Found in the dig is a statue of the Roman emperor Hadrian, who proceeds to offer an unusual perspective on modern life and values through mysterious letters carried by a messenger pigeon. Eray also comments on modernity, as the city of Ankara emerges as a character in the novel's fantasy. Set in junta-ruled Turkey of the ...
A novel of magical realism that encompasses love, aging, and the role of memory, The Black Rose of Halfeti takes readers on a journey through the landscapes of Turkey.
In Eray’s world of fantasy and fun, there are few boundaries between reality and imagination. There is a roadside tea garden where spirits gather by night to carry on flirtations until they fade into the dawn, and there is a tavern in Bartin where men make their lost illusions of love come alive by thinking of them. The narrator exchanges places with Night for twenty-four hours to find out what it means to be the unsleeping Night, the guardian of dreams. The slot machines in a casino provide love advice and clues to the multiple realities of romance, history, and everyday life. A mixture of drama and fable, confession and memoir, the fabulous and the prosaic, The Emperor Tea Garden is a place where you have never been and always are. As you turn each page of Eray’s work, you are in a different world, sometimes several at the same time.
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Roman. Yazar davet ettiği hayaletlerin yardımıyla geçmişinden bugününe duygusal bir köprü kuruyor
Editörlüğünü Semih Gümüş’ün üstlendiği Köprü Kitaplar koleksiyonunun 25. kitabını, çağdaş edebiyatımızın fantazya ustası Nazlı Eray yazdı. Bir köşkün bahçesinden müze koridorlarına uzanan farklı bir sevdanın izini süren roman, çocuk gözünden esrarengiz bir dünya sunuyor. Duyguların zamanı aşan gücünü duyumsatan, tutkulu ve sıradışı kahramanlarıyla geçmişle bugün arasında hafızalardan silinmeyecek bir roman.