“000Kitap”: The Book That Is Scandalizing Istanbul
Posted by Jenna Krajeski
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This month marked the thirtieth annual Istanbul Book Fair, an eight-day marketplace for new books and publishers in Turkey. The guest country was Egypt (Turkey is setting a publishing example for its neighbor in transition) and the writers Alaa Al-Aswany and Youssef Zeidan were among those flown in to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the death of the Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. But attention was stolen when, five days into the fair, a Turkish book called “000Kitap” (“000Book”) made its début.
More:The Book Bench: “000Kitap”: The Book That Is Scandalizing Istanbul : The New Yorker
