The Last Apartment in Istanbul
Author: Suman, Defne
ISBN: 9781035902385
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 18 Nov 2025
Pages: 400 Format: Hardback
I was writing to her, so that she would know me not as this old person whose joints creaked when he rose from a chair, but as the real Pericles- the man who dreamt, deceived, envied, loved -
Pericles Drakos has lived in the exquisite Circle Building for all of his seventy-five years. From its lofty windows, he has seen his little corner of Istanbul shift and transform. But as the area has become increasingly gentrified, Pericles has retreated into its shadowy corners. And when the pandemic hits, his isolation deepens.
But when Leyla, a sparky and beautiful thirty-something moves in, Pericles is enthralled. And when he discovers Leyla is a writer, he decides to put his own pen to paper and record his own fraught history- that of a Greek man subjected to the politics of oppression and intimidation in twentieth-century Turkey.
ISBN: 9781035902385
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 18 Nov 2025
Pages: 400 Format: Hardback
I was writing to her, so that she would know me not as this old person whose joints creaked when he rose from a chair, but as the real Pericles- the man who dreamt, deceived, envied, loved -
Pericles Drakos has lived in the exquisite Circle Building for all of his seventy-five years. From its lofty windows, he has seen his little corner of Istanbul shift and transform. But as the area has become increasingly gentrified, Pericles has retreated into its shadowy corners. And when the pandemic hits, his isolation deepens.
But when Leyla, a sparky and beautiful thirty-something moves in, Pericles is enthralled. And when he discovers Leyla is a writer, he decides to put his own pen to paper and record his own fraught history- that of a Greek man subjected to the politics of oppression and intimidation in twentieth-century Turkey.
