Ayfer Tunç

The Aziz Bey Incident (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A haunting and unique collection that vividly evokes Turkey's various landscapes, from one of Turkey's greatest female writers.

The Aziz Bey Incident follows Aziz Bey, a master tambur player of local fame, who becomes possessed with love for Maryam. With the soft touch of an accomplished writer, the life of this singular musician is laid bare in all its sweetness and mediocrity.

'Some of Tunç's protagonists love too little; others love too much. In almost every story, however, her characters are undone by their inability to empathise with the feelings of those nearest to them...After reading 'The Aziz Bey Incident and Other Stories', it's hard not to feel impatient for more English translations of works by this deft and unsettling author.' -- Julia Harte - TimeOut Istanbul

'Ayfer Tunç, an acclaimed novelist and short story writer in her native Turkey, is widely translated abroad but little known in English. In this engaging short story collection, we follow the fortunes of various characters, defeated by circumstances or forces outside their control.' -- Lucy Popescu, HuffPost Culture

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Istros Books
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781908236449
• Artikelnr.: 59551937

Autorenporträt

Story writer and novelist Ayfer Tunç, who is a one of the most recent brilliant pens in Turkish literature, has received a lot of attention for her first short story book both from the literary circles and from readers. She was born in 1964, graduated from Istanbul University, School of Political Sciences. She started working as a journalist in 1989 and worked for highly circulated periodicals and dailies. She worked as editor-in-chief at Yapi Kredi Publishing House between 1999-2004. Furthermore she wrote many screenplays. Tunç's work is about the virtues of being a lonely city dweller and a human being, and with deep insight she describes the suffering that comes along with it. With her book My Parents Will Visit You If You Don't Mind: Our Life in the '70s was first published in 2001, she won the international Balkanika Literary Award in 2003 among seven participating countries. The book was translated into six Balkan languages. The same year her screenplay Cloud in the Sky, inspired by Sait Faik's short stories, was filmed and televised. She has also co-authored a non-fiction study named Two Faced Sexuality with Oya Ayman.