![]() ![]() Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari came to the rescue with his Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow in which we learnt that having become gods, we lost something of ourselves and have not been able to find it. In 2017, we spent a lot of time trying to reassess our own identity. People also turned to translations of U.S.-Israeli author George Prochnik’s An Impossible Exile and the works of Austrian Stefan Zweig. Other domestic writers focused on similar issues of characters struggling to find themselves. This was followed by Zülfü Livaneli’s new book Huzursuzluk, tells the story of a Kurdish man’s love for a Yazidi woman. The English paperback edition came out in 2017, and it feels as fresh as ever. ![]() The story about Raif, a man struggling between with emotions of guilt and shame in pre-war Berlin, resonates with Turkish readers who have perhaps turned to this book looking to both forget and find themselves. Despite tragedies, economic woes and a lack of readers, there were still some wonderful books in Turkey in 2017.Īs in 2016, Sabahattin Ali’s 1943 novella Kürk Mantolu Madonna (Madonna in a Fur Coat) remained the bestseller. ![]()
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