Istanbul Was a Fairytale (Turkish Literature Series) by Mario Levi (Author) Series: Turkish Literature Series Paperback: 672 pages Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press; Reprint edition (2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1564787125 ISBN-13: 978-1564787125 Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
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 their perilous century. First edition Dalkey Archive Press 2012, now available again.
Review With its telescoping of time, its complex changeability of voice, its fractured and prismatic storylines, Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale clearly belongs to the extended tradition of modernism.
(Tadzio Koelb Times Literary Supplement)
\"Highly literary, lyrical... Dense and divergent... replete with poignant, wrenching sentences.\" -- Jewish Book Council
About the Author Mario Levi was born in 1957 in Istanbul. He graduated from Istanbul University\'s Faculty of Literature with a degree in French language and literature in 1980. In addition to being a writer, Levi has worked as a French teacher, an importer, a journalist, a radio programmer, and a copywriter. Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale is his first novel to be translated into English.
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