Ece Temelkuran

Deep Mountain, Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide

Hardcover: 272 pages

Publisher: Verso; 1st English Edition edition (June 14, 2010)

Language:...

Book of the Edge

(BOA Editions, 2010)

English

http://www.amazon.com/Book-Edge-Lannan-Translations-Selection/dp/1934414360

Ece Temelkuran is arguably Turkey’s most accomplished young writer. In...

The Sounds of Bananas (أصوات الموز) is a story of love and politics. The novel exposes how intricately the two are intertwined, and it paints a portrait of Beirut that reveals the spirit which churns the turbulence and beauty of the Middle East. Read More

Almost all the children would have -at least once thought of dying, in order to punish their parents. And ended up crying by its illusion… Perhaps, this illusion is also punishing… Don’t cry… Read More

The book is a compilation of her research on the most deadly hunger strike in Turkey’s history. During the rule of Turkey’s 54th government between 28th of June 1996 and 30th of June 1997Read More

Her collection of poems in prose, ‘Book of the Inside’ is an inner journey eloquently guided with an inner voice. Good news: New age’s new continent is “the Inside.”Read More

I keep a record of the earth. You can call me “a worker of truth” or “a diary keeper”, I write stories on a piece of paper that has only daily validity.Read More

Actually people should not wrap their heart around a paper that has only daily validity. They should not let the rotary capture an eloquent word or a fragile sentence.Read More

“People attack humanity when they experience injustice and when the children are beaten enough…” This book of Ece Temelkuran is not a collection of what she has seen, lived or witnessed in Venezuela, yet not at all a touristic Venezuela compilation.Read More

How many of us remained silent? Sometimes, the furthest people to us are our own people. Sometimes, Turkey seems to be an overseas country to us.Read More

Ece Temelkuran’s ninth book and first novel The Sound of Bananas (Muz Sesleri) for several months remained among the top three best-selling books in the Turkish market, and was immediately deemed a “must-read” in Radikal Kitap, Turkey’s most relied-upon source for book reviews.Read More

“I am now in the second half. And as the entire mortal, I feel like taking lessons from the first one. Worst of all, I feel like those lessons will work for me at some point. How ridiculous it is to see ‘life’ as we call it, restarting from zero with each and every other person!”Read More

In her book "For the Record" Ece Temelkuran revisits Turkey’s recent past and tells the tale of a peculiar social change from state oppression to outright fascism.Read More