Maureen Freely

Tezer Özlü

Cold Nights of Childhood

Orhan Pamuk

Memories of a City

Istanbul

Hilary Mantel

C. S. Lewis

Jenna Bailey

Jessica Martin

Readers' Edition with Contributions from Hilary Mantel, Jessica Martin, Jenna Bailey, Rowan Williams, Kate Saunders, Francis Spufford and Maureen Freely

Grief Observed

Sevgi Soysal

Dawn

Aydinlanma

Museum of Innocence

In this cahier, Maureen Freely explores what it was in her childhood that led her to become a translator, a traveller across the spaces that exist between countries, languages, forms. She describes her itinerant upbringing in America, Turkey, and Greece, vividly evoking what it means to be constantly commuting between worlds – geographical, conceptual, linguistic, literary – in search of a home, or a self, that is proving elusive. She details how she went from being a novelist to being Orhan Pamuk's translator; why too it was necessary for her at one point to cease to be his translator and return to her own fictional worlds. The cahier is completed by a series of delicate collages by Japanese artist Rie Iwatake: images that journey through their own in-between spaces, in a play of analogies and metaphors.

Angry in Piraeus

Introduces Hector Cabot, a wild drunk and philanderer, who is both the catalyst and court jester to a group of displaced Americans and Europeans in an expatriate community in Istanbul

The Life of the Party

The future Mrs Midwinter was apprehensive of her new home because of the haunting accuracy with which her predecessor Rebecca had described it in her book "The Marriage Hearse". Maureen Freely is the author of "Mother's Helper", "The Life of the Party" and "The Stork Club".

The Other Rebecca

Maureen Freely

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