Friday, June 27, 2008

The Idle Years by Orhan Kemal - Times Online

"Classic - The Idle Years by Orham Kemal

Orhan Kemal (1914-70, above) is one of Turkey's most famous and popular modern writers. He wrote novels, plays, short stories and screenplays. And yet, this translation of his early semi-autobiographical novels - Baba Evi (My Father's House) and Avare Yillar (The Idle Years) - is the first of his works to appear in English. "

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