Fethiye Çetin's groundbreaking memoir My Grandmother, an immediate bestseller in Turkey, and translated into nine languages, was the inspiration for the follow-up The Grandchildren. When the former book’s publisher and author began receiving letters from readers who’d had a similar experience—finding out late in life that at least one of their grandparents was Armenian—they decided to put together this striking collection.

These intimate, moving interviews with 25 grandchildren of Armenians from all across Turkey provide a whole new perspective on the human catastrophe of 1915 via ‘minor’ histories that no official discourse is able to account for.

This chilling collection tells the stories of twenty-one women, each of whom bears their womanhood like a curse. Twenty-one women, all lonely, all wandering along the edges of life, and sanity.

The book is beautifully, if darkly, illustrated by reknowned caricaturist and artist Bahadır Baruter. Watch the book trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs8DTm1v3XY

She can’t sleep while the flies make love,

What about you?

Could you be able to sleep while the flies make love?

The one-woman play While the flies make love starring Merve Engin, adapted and directed by Mine Söğüt, has met with great acclaim in Istanbul. The duo is working on a second play based on another story in the collection.

Author's Previous Publishers:

Five Sevim Apartment Building: Djinn-fairy Yarns Spun with Interpretations of Dreams;

Arabic (Cadmus), German (Ruffel), Romanian (Editoriala Vivaldi).

Join five-year-old Alper Kamu, pint-sized philosopher and crime-solver extraordinaire, in the enthralling, highly amusing, clever-as-can-be Sons and Suffering Souls. The adventures of smart ass, wisecracking five-year-old, Alper Kamu (a direct reference to the French philosopher Albert Camus) a little philosopher wise beyond his years. Alper takes on the quest of solving the mystery behind the murder of Uncle Hicabi, the widowed, retired police officer he find next door – with his throat slit! Political intrigue, romance, and wit galore…

New adventures of Alper Kamu coming soon in book two!