The Stone Building and Other Places

The New York Times calls Turkish writer Asli Erdogan one of the "11 Powerful Women We Met Around the World in 2017"

"Asli Erdogan is an exceptionally perceptive and sensitive writer who always produces perfect literary texts."--Orhan Pamuk

"One volume of short stories, The Stone Building and Other Places has become a bestseller in Turkey."-The New York Times

"Beautifully written and honestly told, as tender as the tulip gardens of Istanbul and as brave as the human heart."--Elif Safak, author of The Forty Rules of Love

Three interconnected stories feature women whose lives have been interrupted by forces beyond their control. Exile, serious illness, or the imprisonment of one's beloved are each met with versions of strength and daring, while there is no undoing what fate has wrought. These atmospheric, introspective tales culminate in an experimental, multi-voiced novella, whose "stone building" is a metaphor for the various oppressive institutions-prisons, police headquarters, hospitals, and psychiatric asylums-that dominate the lives of all of these characters. Here is a literary distillation of the alienation, helplessness, and controlled fury of exile and incarceration-both physical and mental-presented in a series of moving, allegorical portraits of lives ensnared by the structures of power.

• Dimensions (cm): 17.7 x 12.7  x 1.91