The Time Regulation Institute
Author: Tanpinar, Ahmet Hamdi
ISBN: 9780141195759
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 28 May 2014
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
A forgotten masterpiece of Turkish literature, championed by Orhan Pamuk and translated into English for the first time
'Just as she was being lowered into the earth - following the late afternoon call to prayer - my aunt sprang briskly back to life'
In this fictional memoir of Hayri Irdal - troublesome boy, workshy man and feckless husband - life is examined in all its double-crossing, chaotic, disastrous glory. From his youth, dismantling timepieces while his family fell apart, to his later years at the scandal-hit Time Regulation Institute, Hayri's absurdist misadventures play out as a brilliant allegory of the collision between East and West, tradition and modernity.
ISBN: 9780141195759
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 28 May 2014
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
A forgotten masterpiece of Turkish literature, championed by Orhan Pamuk and translated into English for the first time
'Just as she was being lowered into the earth - following the late afternoon call to prayer - my aunt sprang briskly back to life'
In this fictional memoir of Hayri Irdal - troublesome boy, workshy man and feckless husband - life is examined in all its double-crossing, chaotic, disastrous glory. From his youth, dismantling timepieces while his family fell apart, to his later years at the scandal-hit Time Regulation Institute, Hayri's absurdist misadventures play out as a brilliant allegory of the collision between East and West, tradition and modernity.
