"The Turkish Man Mountain
by Peter Byrne
Book Review
Atasu, Erendiz: The Other Side of the Mountain, Milit Publishing Co., London, 2000, 1st English edition, ISBN 1 84059 113 7, 286 pages, Remzi Kitabevi, Turkey, 1996, 1st Turkish edition. Translated by Erendiz Atasu and Elizabeth Maslen.
(Swans - January 1, 2007) When a sharp look into an enigmatic country finds literary expression, sell-by dates have no relevance. Erendiz Atasu teaches science in Ankara and writes on feminism. The Other Side of the Mountain, ably translated, is her first novel. She recalls in a Letter to the Reader:
[There are]...three great people whose influence on my heart and mind resonate through this book: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, whose being supplied the sap which has sustained my country's life; that major poet, Nazim Hikmet; and the major writer Virginia Woolf.... "
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