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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating without luck meter by meter, the two will develop a filial bond neither has known before, not the poor middle-aged bachelor nor the middle-class boy whose father disappeared after being arrested for politically subversive activities. The pair will come to depend...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 384 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy–or–hüzün–that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire....
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
360 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Asya has led a sheltered life with her mother and three aunts in Istanbul, until she meets Armanoush, her brother's stepdaughter, who flies to Istanbul to reconnect with her past and introduces Asya to a new world of possibilities and dangers.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic-a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingeria-the 29th state of the Ottoman Empire-located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension...
5) Snow
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
425 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After years of political exile in Western Europe, Ka returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral, where he learns of a series of bizarre events that have changed his childhood hometown and threaten its future.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
One of the world's great cinema artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades, despite being banned from filmmaking by the Iranian government since 2010. In No Bears completed shortly before his imprisonment in 2022, Panahi plays a fictionalized version of himself, a dissident filmmaker who relocates to a rural border town to direct a film remotely...
8) Kedi
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Türkçe
Description
Hundreds of thousands of cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul freely. For thousands of years they've wandered in and out of people's lives, becoming an essential part of the communities that make the city so rich. Claiming no owners, these animals live between two worlds, neither wild nor tame, and they bring joy and purpose to those people they choose to adopt. In Istanbul, cats are the mirrors to the people, allowing them to reflect on their lives...
9) Mustang
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Türkçe
Description
It's the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences. The family home slowly turns into a prison, classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages begin to be arranged.
10) Aferim!
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Romanian
Description
Set in early nineteenth century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
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