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The Wounded Age and Eastern Tales

by Ferit Edgü
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One of Turkey's most celebrated writers explores themes of violence, otherness, and exile through a thrilling hybrid of poetry and prose that paints a vivid picture of Turkey's conflict-torn lands.
In the two books paired here, translated into English for the first time, the great Turkish writer Ferit Edgü represents complex social and political realities with startling lyricism. The Wounded Age features a newspaper reporter from Istanbul, assigned to write about ethno-national violence in the mountains of eastern Turkey. Like the narrators in Eastern Tales, he is a stranger in a region where a buried history—the state’s violence against Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians—continues uninterrupted with the subjugation of the Kurds. Language in this place, especially the language of outsiders, cannot be trusted. In the story “Interview,” an old villager tells the narrator, “Make our photograph,” and adds, “Send us the pictures. No need to write us letters.” The minimal tales Edgü tells are vivid pictures of life in the East—a house in ruins, an empty crib, wolves howling in the hills—and transcriptions of living voices. The reporter in The Wounded Age has no illusions that his story will stop the bloodletting; instead, he goes east because he knows he must open his eyes and unstop his ears.

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    January 10, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781681376776

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 31, 2022
      Edgü sketches the austere beauty and stark violence of Turkey’s mountainous east and its borderlands in this spare and poignant collection, his English-language debut. The minimalist title novella follows an unnamed journalist visiting the volatile region, who is determined to make a record of those who’ve been displaced to refugee camps after an unspecified war. With the help of his guide and interpreter, the journalist speaks to survivors, though he struggles to comprehend the apparently ceaseless and cyclical violence. A series titled “Eastern Tales” paints a picture of the region’s traditions. In the parable “Happiness,” a government appointee is sent to build houses in a village where people prefer to live in caves. Eventually, he comes to identify with the villagers and repairs their caves instead. The koan-like series “Minimal Tales” showcases the dark humor of people who know there is no meaning to their suffering, as a villager rhetorically asks the narrator of “Ruins”: “What business would God have on this mountaintop?” In brief, melancholy views of the bleak landscape, Edgü cuts to the heart of the matter, evoking powerful emotions with few words. This will transport readers.

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