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ISBN 1 84659 028 0
Genre: Fiction
Release: Jan 2007
Format: 13 x 20 cm
Edition: Paperback
Pages: 400pp
Price: £ 7.99

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• About the Author
• Book Info
• Excerpts
• Reviews


About the Author
Moris Farhi was born in Turkey in 1935. He has written several novels, including Children of the Rainbow and Journey through the Wilderness (both Saqi). He is a vice-president of International PEN, and in 2001 was awarded an MBE for services to literature. He lives in London.
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Young Turk

Moris Farhi

Young Turk

Against the backdrop of Nazism, in a multi-racial Turkey giving sanctuary to many of Europe's fleeing Jews, a group of teenage friends struggles to understand events while reeling from (and relishing) the sexual and emotional discoveries of adolescence.

An alluring woman initiates Mustafa and his classmates in the carnal delights of rose petal jam; Musa discovers the hard facts of reaching manhood when he is expelled from the women's baths; Bilal, a 14-year-old Jewish boy, sets off for Greece to rescue his mother's sister; and a circus orphan known only as 'Girl' falls head over heels for the new trapeze artist ...

Young Turk is a novel in thirteen positions. Reminiscent of Julio Cortazar and Italo Calvino, this is a wise, craftily spun and spine-tinglingly erotic tale of love, courage and the forging of conscience.

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Reviews
'Everyone should go out immediately and buy Moris Farh's latest novel Young Turk ... Warm, witty, wise, humane, it's a delightful and moving book.'

Nicholas Murray, author of Kafka

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Excerpts
In the beginning, there is Death.

All creatures meet it at birth. Animals never forget the encounter. With very few exceptions, we humans always do, even though we haggle with it several times a day. This commerce is never conducted with the brain or the heart, as we might expect, but with the genitals. The tinglings we feel between our legs are not always caused by sexual desire or fear. Mostly, they document our negotiations with the Clattering Skeleton.

These are facts. Straight from the mouth of Mahmut the Simurg. He is the Türkmen teller of tales from the circus who, true to his nickname, looks like a bird as large and dark as a rain-cloud.

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