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Stone and Shadow (2023)
Burhan Sönmez
"This is storytelling with the precision of a poem and the scale of an epic. Stone and Shadow is a novel as multitudinous as Turkey, as wide and deep as life itself."
Sidle Creek (2023)
Jolene McIlwain
"In Sidle Creek, characters don't fall in love, they unearth it. And that's what these stories do, they unearth layer upon layer of love for life and all its hills and valleys. These are stories in which textures are beagle-soft; a creek can heal or at least make you believe it can; a calf can be a trigger to a violent memory and the cutest little thing; a person can be a quartersawn board, which is to say stable, or they can be rift-sawn, which is to say not. These stories show life in all of its beauty and its horror."
I Am My Country (2023)
Kenan Orhan
"A fearless portrait of Turkey . . . Each story contains a world in which the reader immerses so fully that they will be reluctant to leave."
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