Bibliograph

Shadowless, Hasan Ali Taptas ; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely and John Angliss

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Label

Shadowless, Hasan Ali Taptas ; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely and John Angliss

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Shadowless

Responsibility statement

Hasan Ali Taptas ; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely and John Angliss

Summary

In an Anatolian village forgotten both by God and the government, the muhtar has been elected leader for the 16th successive year. When he staggers to bed that night, drunk on raki and his own well-deserved success, the village is prosperous. But when he is woken by his wife the next evening he discovers that Nuri, the barber, has disappeared without a trace in the dead of night, and the community begins to fracture

Target audience

adult

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