The Garden of the Departed Cats
It might seem odd to find such crafted postmodernist writing coming out of Turkey. [Karasu] is a rare find indeed. --Kirkus ReviewsMasterfully translated by Aron Aji, the book is bound to draw comparisons with the work of...Borges...Calvino, and...Cortazar. --Vincent Czyz,WBUR Online Arts, 23 March 2004No one else could have written it ....aphoristic, playful, loving and sharply focused. --Publishers Weekly, 1 September 2003One of Turkey's most interesting modern writers --BooklistThe fragility of our common experience in language and the world resonates through every line of Creeley's recent work. --Buffalo News, R. D. Pohl, 7 September 2003The translation by Aron Aji is commendably graceful....it has stayed with me and enriched my thinking about familiar subjects. --Lawrence E. Butler,Lambda Book Report, March/April 2004These are disquieting fables that are breathtakingly enthralling….the translation is superb, the lines sing, emphatic and graceful. --The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Joseph DeweyTurkey's great philosophical novelist shrewdly imagines a human chess game. --Philadelphia Inquirer, 14 September 2003[Karasu] rips apart our expectations and then fills the space he's created with the fabulous, the bizarre, the unexpected. --Vincent Czyz,West Branch, Fall/Winter 2004