Portrait of a Turkish family
By: Irfan Orga ; with a new afterword by Ateş Orga.
Publisher: Eland; Hippocrene Books
Published: 1988
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Orga, Irfan, 1908-1970 -- Family.; Orga family.; Turkey -- Civilization -- 20th century.
Description: It's a middle class Turkish family in the early 1900s. They squabble with relatives and have a comfortable life selling carpets. But WWI begins and each of them is literally ruined by the deprivation and horror they survive (or not). I'll never forget the description of the battle of Gallipoli in northern Turkey.