A Mind at Peace — Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

The greatest novel ever written Istanbul Orhan Pamuk Tanpınar s sweeping literary masterpiece is a love of his native Turkey and of the flesh His lyricism and resonant plot will leave U S Readers wondering why they ve had to wait so long to read this exquisite novel Publishers Weekly Every is full of sharp insights into human nature delivered with a linguistic confidence that cracks like a whip and warms one from inside with that glow of recognition the recognition that no matter how far away we think we might be from one another in time and space we are all distilled from the very same mixture of passion and compassion intelligence and foolishness Uğur Akıncı