A Westerner writing about Istanbul “comes up against the Orient as a European or American first, as an individual second,” writes Edward Said. The American

Istanbul Passage is the story of a man swept up in the dawn of the Cold War, of an unexpected love affair, and a city as deceptive as the calm surface waters of

A Westerner writing about Istanbul “comes up against the Orient as a European or American first, as an individual second,” writes Edward Said. The American

This wry and visceral debut novel follows a young Turkish-American woman who, rather than grieving her father's untimely death, seeks treatment for a stubborn h

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