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Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale

Levi, Mario more...

Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
Audience: General/trade ; College/higher education ; Professional and scholarly
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Publication Date: 27/04/2012
Place of Publication: United States

RRP: $22.95
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A major work of contemporary Turkish literature, Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale tells the stories of three generations of a Jewish family from the 1920s to the 1980s. Istanbul is their only home, and yet they live in a state of alienation, isolating themselves from the world around them. As witness, observer, and protagonist, the narrator at once inside and outside of his story records their many tales, as well as those of their friends and neighbors, creating an expansive mosaic of characters, each doing their best to survive the twentieth century.