Turkish fiction

Review: İSTANBUL İSTANBUL by Burhan Sönmez, translated by Ümit Hussein
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Review: İSTANBUL İSTANBUL by Burhan Sönmez, translated by Ümit Hussein

İstanbul İstanbulBurhan Sönmez, translated by Ümit HusseinOR Books, May 2016192 pp, $18 Unlike in New York, where managing to live in the city for ten years grants one the status of being a New Yorker, rarely will you meet a person living in Istanbul who will be identified as an İstanbullu. The stakes are much…