"�We need to rest within a place which we may never feel to be our own�
By Simon Bahceli
THE CITY of the Heart is a thought-provoking and beautiful book written by a man whose life has been as colourful, complex and contradictory as the contents of the book itself.
It is a collection of poems by the 14th century Turkish poet Yunus Emre, lovingly translated by Suha Faiz, a Turkish Cypriot, who despite his deep love for the island was forced by circumstance to spend many of his almost 80 years living in Britain.
I met Faiz, back in Cyprus to promote his new book, in the Buyuk Han, a restored Ottoman inn in northern Nicosia, for a three-hour conversation during which we talked about his book, his life, and Cyprus� troublesome history.
There is an inextricable connection between Faiz�s life and the subject of his work � something he spells out in its introduction when he writes, �Fate has made me a man of two worlds�. "
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