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Young Turk

A Novel in 13 Fragments

By (author) Moris Farhi
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Saqi Books, London, United Kingdom
Published: 16th Feb 2004
Dimensions: w 143mm h 219mm d 36mm
Weight: 550g
ISBN-10: 0863568610
ISBN-13: 9780863568619
Barcode No: 9780863568619
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Synopsis
Against the backdrop of Nazism, in a multi-racial Turkey giving sanctuary to many of Europe's fleeing Jews, a group of teenage friends struggles to understand events while reeling from (and relishing) the sexual and emotional discoveries of adolescence. An alluring woman initiates Mustafa and his classmates in the carnal delights of rose petal jam; Musa discovers the hard facts of reaching manhood when he is expelled from the women's baths; Bilal, a 14-year-old Jewish boy, sets off for Greece to rescue his mother's sister; and a circus orphan known only as 'Girl' falls head over heels for the new trapeze artist ...Young Turk is a novel in thirteen positions. Reminiscent of Julio Cortazar and Italo Calvino, this is a wise, craftily spun and spine-tinglingly erotic tale of love, courage and the forging of conscience.

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'Moris Farhi shames the willed littleness of British fiction with this novel. In Farhi's writing there is a distinctive collision of traditions which results in something funny, political and unique.' David Hare