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Book Review: Last Train to Istanbul

Bythatteacher.in 1 December 2018

Last Train to Istanbul Ayse Kulin (translation by J W Baker) 2002 (reprint 2013) Amazon Crossing pp. 396 Set in wartime Turkey and France, the novel revolves around the lives of a Turkish family. The younger woman in the family has married a Turkish Jew. The family refuses to accept their marriage and the couple…

My Name is Red

Bythatteacher.in 16 October 2016

My Name is RedOrhan Pamuk 1998(translated in English by Erdag M Goknar in 2001)Alfred A Knopf pp. 448 A Nobel prize winning novel, My Name is Red is set in Istanbul. A story of miniaturists in the sixteenth century, it is a tale of love, violence, art, religion and life. Hidden between the descriptions of complex…

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