The Sound of Fishsteps

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]

The Sound of Fishsteps
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AuthorBuket Uzuner
Original titleBalık İzlerinin Sesi
TranslatorPelin Arıner
CountryTurkey
LanguageTurkish
PublisherRemzi Kitabevi
Published in English
2002
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages232 pp
ISBN978-975-14-0843-3
OCLC50318943
LC ClassPL248.U984 B3513 2002

Plot summary

Turkish 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
  • Awarded the 1993 Yunus Nadi Novel Prize.[3][4]

References
  1. "Buket Uzuner". buketuzuner.com. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
  2. Maxwell, Virginia (2008). Lonely Planet Istanbul City Guide. ISBN 9781740599160. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
  3. "Buket Uzuner". turkishculture.org. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
  4. "Uzuner releases 'The Long White Cloud-Gallipoli' in English". Turkish Daily News. 2009-12-05. Retrieved 2009-07-01.


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