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| Istanbul GatheringAuthor: Roddy O'Connor
ISBN: 9944424242
Publisher: Citlembik
Copyright: ©2007
Pages: 269
Language: English
Binding: softcover
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Istanbul Gathering tells the story of a circle of friends in the heady expatriate scene of Istanbul in the sixties and seventies. American protagonist Andrew Malone, a shabby, middle-aged drinker and would-be writer, has returned to Istanbul for the first time in twenty years; his beautiful ex-wife Sylvia and other friends have never left. The narrative follows the characters over the course of a single day as they make their separate ways through the city and reflect on their lives before meeting for a reunion dinner in the old quarter of Beyoglu. This is a story about relationships and lost love; about the nostalgia of growing older and reminiscing on the past, which can never be regained; but also about the city of Istanbul, a place whose rich, many-layered history is kept alive through the shared memories of its inhabitants.
'Istanbul Gathering is an intoxicating book.'
--John Freeley, author of Strolling Through Istanbul
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About the Author
Roddy O'Connor has spent nine years in Istanbul, three in the
sixties and six in the nineties, teaching English and French in Turkish secondary schools. He has also spent a dozen years in France and two in Morocco. He received his Ph.D. in French from Princeton University and during the seventies and early eighties he taught nineteenth-century French Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, before returning overseas. He is the author of critical studies of Balzac and Flaubert.
Istanbul Gathering is his first novel. He and his wife Olga live in LeFaouet, France.
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