Ahmet H. Tanpinar (Books)

Ahmet H. Tanpinar Books

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar stands as one of Turkish literature's foremost modern novelists and essayists, skillfully weaving together Eastern and Western cultural threads. His work delves deeply into psychological analysis, history, and the challenges of modernization, often centering on the concept of time and its impact on the individual. Tanpınar's distinctive style is marked by an ironic perspective, adept at revealing the complex interplay between society and the self within a rapidly changing world.

A Mind At Peace

451 pages
16 hours of reading

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Heralded as the Turkish Ulysses, A Mind at Peace is a lyrical tribute to the beautiful city of Istanbul, set on the eve of WWII. Tanpinar memorably captures the anxieties of a cosmopolitan Istanbul family during the early years of the Turkish Republic, founded on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire in 1923. Both a historical novel and a love story, it addresses issues of language, music, tradition, politics and modernity and has received Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk's highest compliment as 'the greatest novel ever written about Istanbul'.