Review of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Aysel K. Basci (trans.), "Of Tales and Dreams," Flash Fiction Online (August 2023): 19-21 -- Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.
Content note: Death of a parent.
This is a meandering story, starting here and moving to there, and then to elsewhere, with no underlying sense of narrative, just the reflections of someone who grew up beside the Tigris and both cannot imagine ever leaving and yet yearns to be free. There's a lot of lush imagery in it, and I felt I got to know the narrator quite well even in such a short excerpt.
(Original published in Hikayeler (Short Stories / Evin Sahibi), Dergah Yayinlari, Istanbul 1983.)
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