The Sound of Fishsteps (Balık İzlerinin Sesi in Turkish) is a prize-winning novel by Turkish writer Buket Uzuner originally published in Turkish by Remzi Kitabevi in 1993 and in English translation in 2002.[1][2]
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| Author | Buket Uzuner |
|---|---|
| Original title | Balık İzlerinin Sesi |
| Translator | Pelin Arıner |
| Language | Turkish |
| Publisher | Remzi Kitabevi |
| Publication place | Turkey |
Published in English | 2002 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 232 pp |
| ISBN | 978-975-14-0843-3 |
| OCLC | 50318943 |
| LC Class | PL248.U984 B3513 2002 |
Plot summary
editTurkish prodigy Afife Piri, a descendant of Ottoman-Turkish cartographer Piri Reis, is invited, along with 87 other international selects, to take part in a UN sponsored retreat in an unnamed Scandinavian city. At the retreat she encounters a man claiming to be the French novelist Romain Gary, with whom she falls in love, and the descendants of other iconoclastic geniuses including Joan of Arc, Anaïs Nin, Jawaharlal Nehru and Edvard Grieg. The mysterious director of the retreat, Dr. Gunnar, however, has a secret agenda that is slowly revealed.
Awards
editExternal links
edit- Extract from Sounding Fish Traces at Bogazici University website.
References
edit- ^ "Buket Uzuner". buketuzuner.com. Retrieved 2009-07-01. [dead link]
- ^ Maxwell, Virginia (2008). Lonely Planet Istanbul City Guide. ISBN 9781740599160. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
- ^ "Buket Uzuner". turkishculture.org. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
- ^ "Uzuner releases 'The Long White Cloud-Gallipoli' in English". Turkish Daily News. 2009-12-05. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
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