"My heroes are Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Oguz Atay, and Yusuf Atilgan. I
have become a novelist by following their footsteps ...I love Yusuf
Atilgan; he manages to remain local although he benefits from Faulkner's
works and the Western traditions."--Orhan Pamuk "Motherland Hotel is a
startling masterpiece, a perfect existential nightmare, the portrait of
a soul lost on the threshold of an ever-postponed Eden."--Alberto
Manguel "This moving and unsettling portrait of obsession run amok
might have been written in 1970s Turkey, when social mores after Ataturk
were still evolving, but it stays as relevant as the country struggles
to save the very democratic ideals on which the Republic was
rebirthed...brilliant writing ..."--Poornima Apte, Booklist, Starred
Review "Turkish writer Atilgan's classic 1973 novel about alienation,
obsession, and precipitous decline, nimbly translated by Stark...An
unsettling study of a mind, steeped in violence, dropping off the edge
of reason."--Kirkus Reviews "A maladroit loner who runs the
seen-better-days Motherland Hotel in a backwater Turkish town, Zeberjet
has become obsessed with a female guest who stayed there briefly and
frantically anticipates her presumed return...as Zeberjet becomes
increasingly unhinged, we're drawn into his dark interior life while
coming to understand Turkey's post--Ottoman uncertainty. Sophisticated
readers will understand why Atilgan is called the father of Turkish
modernism, while those who enjoy dark psychological novels can also
appreciate."--Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal "Yusuf Atilgan gives us a
wonderful, timeless novel about obsession, with an anti-hero who is
both victim and perpetrator, living out a life 'neither dead nor alive'
in a sleepy Aegean city.
Motherland Hotel is an absolute gem of
Turkish literature."--Esmahan Aykol, author of Divorce Turkish Style
"Yusuf Atilgan, like Patrick Modiano, demonstrates how the everyday can
reflect larger passions and catastrophes. Beautifully written and
translated, Motherland Hotel can finally find the wider audience in the
west that it deserves."--Susan Daitch, author of The Lost Civilization
of Suolucidir "The freedom that Atilgan articulates isn't the freedom
of Lord Byron or Milton Friedman. It's more like the sense of freedom
that comes with finally having a diagnoses.
Motherland Hotel - Yusuf Atilgan
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