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The Language of the Sun
New Turkish translation
The young American Lee, restless and recently separated, travels to Istanbul in search of her grandmother’s past. Helene Bischoff, a German Jew, had sought refuge there in the 1930s from persecution by the Nazi regime. At that time, Kemal Atatürk generously offered asylum to Jews in Turkey, primarily targeting intellectuals, engineers, doctors, and lawyers who were to help drive the radical modernization of Turkey.
In Istanbul, this historically rich and sprawling megacity between East and West, Lee discovers that her grandmother’s former companion and one-time lover, the journalist and agent Georg Naumann, is still alive, well over a hundred years old. What connects him to Helene, and perhaps even to her, Lee? In this gripping, multifaceted novel, we experience the violence of history, the power of love, and Istanbul as both a labyrinth and a refuge. Informative and sensual—the great new novel by Matthias Göritz.