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Recommended historical books (5)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into historical here are some historical books from Turkey for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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Last Train to Istanbul by Ayşe Kulin EN

Rating: 4.5 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Turkey flag Turkey
Description:
Ayse Kulin is a clever writer. She draws the reader into the story of the life and loves of a Turkish family in wartime, and by the time the reader realizes that she has also cranked up the tension with a rescue plot, it is too late to put the book down unfinished.

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My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Turkey flag Turkey
Description:
** ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK ** Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Award 'Wonderful' The Spectator 'Magnificent' Observer 'Sumptuous' New Yorker 'Unforgettable' Guardian My Name is Red is an unforgettable murder mystery, set amid the splendour of sixteenth century Istanbul, from the Nobel prizewinning author In the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day - in the European manner. At a time of violent fundamental... continue

3.

The Garden of Departed Cats by Bilge Karasu EN

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Country: Asia / Turkey flag Turkey
Description:
A surreal, utterly unique Turkish novel about a human chess game.

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The Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar EN

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Country: Asia / Turkey flag Turkey
Description:
This is the story of the misadventures of Hayri Irdals, an unforgettable antihero who, along with an eccentric cast of characters (a television mystic, a pharmacist who dabbles in alchemy, a dignitary from the lost Ottoman empire, the 'life-artist' Halit), founds The Time Regulation Institute. The institute's quixotic quest: to make sure all the clocks in Turkey are set to Western time. Thus begins a brilliant satire about the calamitous arrival of Western and corporate values in tradition-bound Turkey.

5.
The White Castle

The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Turkey flag Turkey
Description:
Winner of the 1990 Independent Award for foreign fiction, this book tells the story of a young Italian scholar who is captured by pirates. Put up for auction at the Istanbul slave market, he is bought by a Turkish servant, eager to learn about scientific and intellectual advances in the West.