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Secret Dreams in Istanbul
Nermin Yıldırım
translated by Ümit HusseinA highly intelligent, empathetic account of a family haunted by dark secrets. Simultaneously a psychological study, a focus for feminism, a novel of intrigue, it has the unique and laudable ability to win the reader’s sympathy for the most unsavoury of characters.
Anthem Press
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9781785275821
December 2020
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£18.95 / $18.95A highly intelligent, empathetic account of a family haunted by dark secrets. Simultaneously a psychological study, a focus for feminism, a novel of intrigue, it has the unique and laudable ability to win the reader’s sympathy for the most unsavoury of characters.
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Fairy Chimney Soda
Ercan Kesal
translated by Alex Dawe“Fairy Chimney Soda” is a collection of short stories by Ercan Kesal, touching memories of his childhood in a small town near the famous fairy chimneys of Cappadocia.
Anthem Press
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9781785271496
November 2019
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£18.95 / $18.95“Fairy Chimney Soda” is a collection of short stories by Ercan Kesal, touching memories of his childhood in a small town near the famous fairy chimneys of Cappadocia.
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Farewell, My Beautiful Homeland
Ahmet Ümit
translated by Rakesh Jobanputra‘Farewell, My Beautiful Homeland’ is the story of a man from Salonika on the eve of the First World War who is forced to choose between his love for a woman and his love for his country as the Ottoman Empire is drawn into the war and faces collapse.
Anthem Press
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9781785271038
October 2019
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£18.95 / $18.95‘Farewell, My Beautiful Homeland’ is the story of a man from Salonika on the eve of the First World War who is forced to choose between his love for a woman and his love for his country as the Ottoman Empire is drawn into the war and faces collapse.
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Tanpinar’s ‘Five Cities’
Ahmed Hamdi Tanpinar
translated by Ruth ChristieIn ‘Five Cities’ (‘Beş Şehir’), Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar focuses on cities significant in Anatolian history and his own emotional life. Part history, part autobiography, part poetic meditation on time and memory, ‘Five Cities’ is Proustian in style with a tension between a backward-looking melancholy and a concern for the unpredictable future of the author’s country.
Anthem Press
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9781783088485
November 2018
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£15.95 / $15.95In ‘Five Cities’ (‘Beş Şehir’), Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar focuses on cities significant in Anatolian history and his own emotional life. Part history, part autobiography, part poetic meditation on time and memory, ‘Five Cities’ is Proustian in style with a tension between a backward-looking melancholy and a concern for the unpredictable future of the author’s country.
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Eugene Onegin
A Novel in Verse
Alexander Pushkin
translated by Mary HobsonA powerful love story set in the class-conscious Tsarist Russia of the early 19th century. It embraces every level of that society – serf, provincial, aristocrat – in verse which is by turns beautiful, witty, wickedly perceptive and always readable.
Anthem Press
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9781783084586
June 2016
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£15.95 / $15.95A powerful love story set in the class-conscious Tsarist Russia of the early 19th century. It embraces every level of that society – serf, provincial, aristocrat – in verse which is by turns beautiful, witty, wickedly perceptive and always readable.
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Unto the Tulip Gardens
My Shadow
Gül Irepoglu
translated by Feyza HowellThe Tulip Era is in full bloom in 18th century Istanbul as the mystery over the chief imperial painter unfolds. Passion, love and tulips embellish the spectacular atmosphere as a bloody revolt is brewing in the wings.
Anthem Press
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9781783084555
June 2016
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£15.95 / $15.95The Tulip Era is in full bloom in 18th century Istanbul as the mystery over the chief imperial painter unfolds. Passion, love and tulips embellish the spectacular atmosphere as a bloody revolt is brewing in the wings.
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The Other
Ece Vahapoglu
translated by Victoria HolbrookIt examines the secular/religious tensions in Turkish society, through the eyes of two different women.
Anthem Press
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9781783084524
June 2016
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£15.95 / $15.95It examines the secular/religious tensions in Turkish society, through the eyes of two different women.
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Saffron Yellow
İnci Aral
translated by Melahat BehlilSaffron Yellow' covers a wide range of topics relevant to life in modern Turkey, from politics to personal life. The book features the interconnected stories of a group of young adults living in Istanbul. The book follows their successes and failures, their relationships, loves, and fears as they go through life in the city.
Anthem Press
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9781783084494
June 2016
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£15.95 / $15.95Saffron Yellow’ covers a wide range of topics relevant to life in modern Turkey, from politics to personal life. The book features the interconnected stories of a group of young adults living in Istanbul. The book follows their successes and failures, their relationships, loves, and fears as they go through life in the city.
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Life Almost Still
Carme Riera
translated by Josep SobrerOne missing person case remains unsolved and now another student has disappeared from Barcelona University. His girlfriend and colleagues report matters to the police and university authorities but they refuse to become involved in the case, believing that he has left voluntarily. This soon changes, however, as the college becomes a backdrop for a suspenseful account of grisly murders.
Anthem Press
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9781783084616
June 2016
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£15.95 / $15.95One missing person case remains unsolved and now another student has disappeared from Barcelona University. His girlfriend and colleagues report matters to the police and university authorities but they refuse to become involved in the case, believing that he has left voluntarily. This soon changes, however, as the college becomes a backdrop for a suspenseful account of grisly murders.
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Catalyst
Alain Claude Sulzer
translated by John BrownjohnAnthem Press
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9781783082711
September 2014
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Punk Samurai Slash Down
Kou Machida
translated by Wayne P. LammersGlimpsing an elderly man leading his blind daughter on a pilgrimage, Junoshin, a freelance samurai, swiftly kills him with a sword and denounces him as part of a cult. Set in Edo-period Japan, ‘Punk Samurai Slash Down’ follows the power struggles which entangle Junoshin within the Kuroae clan, fraught with division and facing the spread of a dangerous cult.
Anthem Press
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9781783081271
April 2014
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£34.95 / $34.95Glimpsing an elderly man leading his blind daughter on a pilgrimage, Junoshin, a freelance samurai, swiftly kills him with a sword and denounces him as part of a cult. Set in Edo-period Japan, ‘Punk Samurai Slash Down’ follows the power struggles which entangle Junoshin within the Kuroae clan, fraught with division and facing the spread of a dangerous cult.
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The Kingdom of the Wind
Hiroyuki Itsuki
translated by Meredith McKinneyJournalist Takashi Hayami meets Ai Katsuragi, a member of a religious organization, Tenmu Jinshinko, which meets secretly at the tomb of the Emperor Nintoku and which adheres to the nomadic way of life of its ancestors. They rely on the company Ikarino to fund the various political, social and cultural activities they promote that protect their unique lifestyle. But when Ikarino becomes a giant conglomerate that destroys the forests and mountains that form the foundation of the Tenmu Jinkshinko, Hayami must join the group’s struggle.
Anthem Press
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9781783081295
April 2014
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£34.95 / $34.95Journalist Takashi Hayami meets Ai Katsuragi, a member of a religious organization, Tenmu Jinshinko, which meets secretly at the tomb of the Emperor Nintoku and which adheres to the nomadic way of life of its ancestors. They rely on the company Ikarino to fund the various political, social and cultural activities they promote that protect their unique lifestyle. But when Ikarino becomes a giant conglomerate that destroys the forests and mountains that form the foundation of the Tenmu Jinkshinko, Hayami must join the group’s struggle.
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Kutze, Stepp’n on Wheat
Shinji Ishii
translated by David KarashimaAlone on a midsummer night, Cat wakes to find a stranger dressed in yellow ‘rat-a-tap, tapping’ his feet. Captivated by the music of Kutze’s steps, Cat resolves to tread wheat like the stranger when he grows up: in the big city where he studies music or, eventually, further afield, across the sea.
Anthem Press
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9781783081288
April 2014
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£34.95 / $34.95Alone on a midsummer night, Cat wakes to find a stranger dressed in yellow ‘rat-a-tap, tapping’ his feet. Captivated by the music of Kutze’s steps, Cat resolves to tread wheat like the stranger when he grows up: in the big city where he studies music or, eventually, further afield, across the sea.
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Tales from a Mountain Cave
Stories from Japan’s Northeast
Hisashi Inoue
translated by Angus TurvillThe sound of a trumpet across a Japanese mountain valley leads a young man to befriend a mysterious stranger. During repeated visits to the cave where the stranger has set up home, the young man learns about his life in the region. The stranger’s hilarious, bawdy and touching narratives captivate the young man, but he begins to doubt their veracity. Can they really be true?
'Tales from a Mountain Cave' is a translation of Hisashi Inoue’s highly popular 'Shinshaku Tono Monogatari' (新釈遠野物語), set in the Kamaishi area of Iwate Prefecture, Northeast Japan. Kamaishi was devastated by the tsunami of March 2011, and royalties on sales of this book will be donated to post-tsunami community support projects.
Anthem Press
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9780857281302
November 2013
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£18.95 / $18.95The sound of a trumpet across a Japanese mountain valley leads a young man to befriend a mysterious stranger. During repeated visits to the cave where the stranger has set up home, the young man learns about his life in the region. The stranger’s hilarious, bawdy and touching narratives captivate the young man, but he begins to doubt their veracity. Can they really be true?
‘Tales from a Mountain Cave’ is a translation of Hisashi Inoue’s highly popular ‘Shinshaku Tono Monogatari’ (新釈遠野物語), set in the Kamaishi area of Iwate Prefecture, Northeast Japan. Kamaishi was devastated by the tsunami of March 2011, and royalties on sales of this book will be donated to post-tsunami community support projects.
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Day of the Angel
Irina Muravyova
translated by John Dewey‘Day of the Angel’ follows the fates and fortunes of three generations of the Ushakov family, members of the Russian émigré community living in Paris following the Revolution.
Anthem Press
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9781783080120
September 2013
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£26.95 / $26.95‘Day of the Angel’ follows the fates and fortunes of three generations of the Ushakov family, members of the Russian émigré community living in Paris following the Revolution.
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The Isle of South Kamui and Other Stories
Kyotaro Nishimura
translated by Ginny Tapley TakemoriIn this early collection of five short stories, Kyotaro Nishimura explores the criminal mind and what makes people do the unthinkable.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783080113
September 2013
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£34.95 / $34.95In this early collection of five short stories, Kyotaro Nishimura explores the criminal mind and what makes people do the unthinkable.