#smrgSAHAF The Other Side of the Mountain -
Tracing the lives of three generations of a Turkish family, from the Ottoman Empire to the 1990s, this winner of Turkey's most prestigious literary prize follows a daughter who journeys back to her mother's student days at Cambridge and later struggles to find a place in Ataturk's new social order.
"A beautifully sophisticated narrative, at once epic and intimate." —The Daily Telegraph
"Passionate without being sentimental, The Other Side of the Mountain is a bold and poignant novel which defines the struggles and ideas of a whole nation." - Margaret Drabble, author, The Red Queen
ERENDİZ ATASÜ is one of Turkey's most prominent and prolific writers. While working as professor of pharamacognosy at Ankara University, Erendiz wrote short stories and essays on feminism.
Tracing the lives of three generations of a Turkish family, from the Ottoman Empire to the 1990s, this winner of Turkey's most prestigious literary prize follows a daughter who journeys back to her mother's student days at Cambridge and later struggles to find a place in Ataturk's new social order.
"A beautifully sophisticated narrative, at once epic and intimate." —The Daily Telegraph
"Passionate without being sentimental, The Other Side of the Mountain is a bold and poignant novel which defines the struggles and ideas of a whole nation." - Margaret Drabble, author, The Red Queen
ERENDİZ ATASÜ is one of Turkey's most prominent and prolific writers. While working as professor of pharamacognosy at Ankara University, Erendiz wrote short stories and essays on feminism.