About the Author

Nazli Eray is one of Turkey's most popular writers. She is the founder of the Turkish Literary Association, an honorary faculty member at the University of Iowa, and a member of PEN International. She is the author of many stories, plays, and novels, including The Street of Different Dreams, Orpheus, and The Man Who Wears Love, which won the Yunus Nadi Novel Prize in 2002.

Robert Finn is the author of The Early Turkish Novel and translator of Nazli Eray's Orpheus and Orhan Pamuk's Silent House.

Reviews

Nazli Eray takes the reader on a fantastic journey where fact and fiction intersect to liberate the loaded and much-consumed concepts like love and passion, and to suggest that neither death nor everyday life can imprison them. In Eray's house of fiction, lovers unite transgressing the boundaries set by time, space and conventions.-- "Mine �zyurt Kili�, author of Maggie Gee: Writing the Condition-of-England Novel"

This intricate novel from Turkish writer Nazli Eray is a postmodern gem. Set outside reality as often as in, the book follows an extraordinary cast of characters as they come to terms with romance, history, and everyday life. Through its bizarre twists and turns, Eray's imaginative book illustrates our own interconnectedness in an increasingly chaotic world.-- "World Literature Today"