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Walking on the Ceiling
by Aysegül SAVAS
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0525537414
- ISBN 13
- 9780525537410
- Seller
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Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
US 1st Edition / 1st Printing, 2019 (with complete numberline 1-10 to copyright page). Very Good, clean, tight condition with no inscriptions. Minor bumping to lower spine edge. In original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped, with a fold to the rear flap.
Savas writes with both sensuality and coolness, as if determined to find a rational explanation for the irrationality of existence. -- The New York Times I fell in love with this book. -- Katie Kitamura, author of A Separation A mesmerizing novel set in Paris and a changing Istanbul, about a young Turkish woman grappling with her past and her complicated relationship with a famous British writer. After her mother's death, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. One day outside of a bookstore, she meets M., an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris and talking late into the night. What follows is an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks around the city. M. is working on a new novel set in Turkey and Nunu tells him about her family, hoping to impress and inspire him. She recounts the idyllic landscapes of her past, mythical family meals, and her elaborate childhood games. As she does so, she also begins to confront her mother's silence and anger, her father's death, and the growing unrest in Istanbul. Their intimacy deepens, so does Nunu's fear of revealing too much to M. and of giving too much of herself and her Istanbul away. Most of all, she fears that she will have to face her own guilt about her mother and the narratives she's told to protect herself from her memories. A wise and unguarded glimpse into a young woman's coming into her own, Walking on the Ceiling is about memory, the pleasure of invention, and those places, real and imagined, we can't escape. A Novel. Nunu moves from Istanbul to Paris following her mothers death where she meets M., an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired and they fall into an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks around the city. M. is working on a new novel set in Turkey and Nunu tells him about her family, hoping to impress and inspire him. She recounts the idyllic landscapes of her past, mythical family meals, and her elaborate childhood games. As she does so, she also begins to confront her mothers silence and anger, her fathers death, and the growing unrest.
Savas writes with both sensuality and coolness, as if determined to find a rational explanation for the irrationality of existence. -- The New York Times I fell in love with this book. -- Katie Kitamura, author of A Separation A mesmerizing novel set in Paris and a changing Istanbul, about a young Turkish woman grappling with her past and her complicated relationship with a famous British writer. After her mother's death, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. One day outside of a bookstore, she meets M., an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris and talking late into the night. What follows is an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks around the city. M. is working on a new novel set in Turkey and Nunu tells him about her family, hoping to impress and inspire him. She recounts the idyllic landscapes of her past, mythical family meals, and her elaborate childhood games. As she does so, she also begins to confront her mother's silence and anger, her father's death, and the growing unrest in Istanbul. Their intimacy deepens, so does Nunu's fear of revealing too much to M. and of giving too much of herself and her Istanbul away. Most of all, she fears that she will have to face her own guilt about her mother and the narratives she's told to protect herself from her memories. A wise and unguarded glimpse into a young woman's coming into her own, Walking on the Ceiling is about memory, the pleasure of invention, and those places, real and imagined, we can't escape. A Novel. Nunu moves from Istanbul to Paris following her mothers death where she meets M., an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired and they fall into an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks around the city. M. is working on a new novel set in Turkey and Nunu tells him about her family, hoping to impress and inspire him. She recounts the idyllic landscapes of her past, mythical family meals, and her elaborate childhood games. As she does so, she also begins to confront her mothers silence and anger, her fathers death, and the growing unrest.
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- Bookseller
- Itchen Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 585
- Title
- Walking on the Ceiling
- Author
- Aysegül SAVAS
- Format/Binding
- Original grey boards, quarter bound with cream spine / green lettering. In unclipped dustwrapper.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition / 1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0525537414
- ISBN 13
- 9780525537410
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, USA
- Date Published
- 2019
- Pages
- 210
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Itchen Books
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Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire
About Itchen Books
20th Century first editions with some older items. Specialist areas of interest include Russian literature, Irish literature.
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