How Istanbul's cultural complexities have shaped eight contemporary novelists (Byatt, Glazebrook, Atasü, Şafak, Tillman, Livaneli, Kristeva, and Pamuk)
Subtitle: tales of Istanbul in contemporary fiction
By: Ayşe Naz Bulamur ; with a foreword by Michael McGaha and a preface by Nilgun Anadolu-Okur
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773439504
Subjects: Cultural pluralism in literature; East and West in literature; Society in literature; Turkish fiction; History and criticism; Cities and towns in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Ethnic groups in literature; In literature; Civilization in literature
Other titles: Tales of Istanbul in contemporary fiction; Istanbul in contemporary fiction
Notes: Discusses the work of eight novelists -- four Turkish, two British, one American, and one Bulgarian-French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.