The Garden of the Departed Cats
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The Garden of the Departed Cats [Karasu, Bilge, Aji, Aron] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Garden of the Departed Cats Review: Turkish Tales - Translated from the Turkish, this work is more a collection of stories and fables than a novel. Most were written in the 1960's and 1970's. (The author died in 1995.) One fable of the main character recruited into a live village chess game stitches the stories together. A lot of the stories remind me a bit of Kurt Vonnegut or even the old TV series, Twilight Zone: a man waits day after day for a bus that never comes; a traveling monk has an animal attached to his bowels; a tourist gets trapped in an endless tunnel under beach-side cliffs; a trapeze artist has premonitions of when his fellow-artists will die; an at first island grows, then sinks under the sea while the inhabitants frantically dig out their harbor; a scientist experiments with a plant that takes away the ability of people to lie. Certain themes reappear: the lonely male intellectual; the traveler; the sea. Some of the stories are good but, all in all, the book is a bit of a chore to read. Review: A book I re-read - Great book, great author, great translation.
| Best Sellers Rank | #3,583,055 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #79,994 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (2) |
| Dimensions | 5.2 x 0.8 x 8 inches |
| ISBN-10 | 0811215512 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0811215510 |
| Item Weight | 9.9 ounces |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 240 pages |
| Publication date | January 12, 2004 |
| Publisher | New Directions |
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Turkish Tales
Translated from the Turkish, this work is more a collection of stories and fables than a novel. Most were written in the 1960's and 1970's. (The author died in 1995.) One fable of the main character recruited into a live village chess game stitches the stories together. A lot of the stories remind me a bit of Kurt Vonnegut or even the old TV series, Twilight Zone: a man waits day after day for a bus that never comes; a traveling monk has an animal attached to his bowels; a tourist gets trapped in an endless tunnel under beach-side cliffs; a trapeze artist has premonitions of when his fellow-artists will die; an at first island grows, then sinks under the sea while the inhabitants frantically dig out their harbor; a scientist experiments with a plant that takes away the ability of people to lie. Certain themes reappear: the lonely male intellectual; the traveler; the sea. Some of the stories are good but, all in all, the book is a bit of a chore to read.
P**0
A book I re-read
Great book, great author, great translation.
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