Young Turk - Tapa blanda

'A novel of startling integrity and beauty.' Independent on Sunday 'A triumph of imaginative memory.' The Guardian 'An unforgettable coming-of-age story ... What's more, it's also about the coming-of-age of his native country ... exuberant, kaleidoscopic.' New York Times 'Writing of this quality and passion is a gift.' Time Out 'Enchanting ... love in its multiple manifestations pervades this wise, generous book.' Financial Times 'Moris Farhi is not only one of Turkey's most remarkable writers, but also one of the major pens of world literature.' Fnac 'His is a quicksand sort of storytelling that sucks you in, redolent with poetry and heavy on the sex.' Big Issue 'Humour, compassion, joy, and distress guide this extraordinary cast of Muslims, Christians, and Jews. Sexual delight and erotic discovery suffuse the stories - lovemaking is God's superb benefaction to every man and woman on earth. The narrators obey this dictum with utmost content, and the novel becomes all the more enthralling for that.' Ararat 'Everyone should go out immediately and buy Young Turk. Warm, witty, wise, humane, it's a delightful and moving book.' Nicholas Murray, author of Kafka

Against the backdrop of Nazism, in a multi-racial Turkey giving sanctuary to many of Europe's fleeing Jews, a group of teenage friends struggles to understand events while reeling from the sexual and emotional discoveries of adolescence. An alluring woman initiates Mustafa and his classmates in the carnal delights of rose petal jam; Musa discovers the hard facts of reaching manhood when he is expelled from the women's baths; Bilal, a fourteen-year-old Jewish boy, sets off for Greece to rescue his mother's sister; and a circus orphan known only as `Girl' falls head over heels for the new trapeze artist ... Young Turk is a wise, craftily-spun and spine-tinglingly erotic tale of love, courage and the forging of conscience.