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Walking on the Ceiling - A Novel (Hardcover)
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Walking on the Ceiling - A Novel (Hardcover)
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[Savas] writes with both sensuality and coolness, as if determined
to find a rational explanation for the irrationality of
existence... -- The New York Times I fell in love with this book.
-- Katie Kitamura, author of A Separation A mesmerizing novel set
in Paris and a changing Istanbul, about a young Turkish woman
grappling with her past and her complicated relationship with a
famous British writer. After her mother's death, Nunu moves from
Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. One day outside of a
bookstore, she meets M., an older British writer whose novels about
Istanbul Nunu has always admired. They find themselves walking the
streets of Paris and talking late into the night. What follows is
an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks
around the city. M. is working on a new novel set in Turkey and
Nunu tells him about her family, hoping to impress and inspire him.
She recounts the idyllic landscapes of her past, mythical family
meals, and her elaborate childhood games. As she does so, she also
begins to confront her mother's silence and anger, her father's
death, and the growing unrest in Istanbul. Their intimacy deepens,
so does Nunu's fear of revealing too much to M. and of giving too
much of herself and her Istanbul away. Most of all, she fears that
she will have to face her own guilt about her mother and the
narratives she's told to protect herself from her memories. A wise
and unguarded glimpse into a young woman's coming into her own,
Walking on the Ceiling is about memory, the pleasure of invention,
and those places, real and imagined, we can't escape.
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