Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Book of DevicesCondition: NewISBN-10: 6059389740EAN: 9786059389747ISBN: 9786059389747Publisher: Koc University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/20/2021Description: Ihsan Oktay Anar’s 1996 novella, "The Book of Devices," is a skeleton key to the ever-inventive author’s fictional world set in the Ottoman times. Here are the wonderful histories of the triumphs and tribulations of three Ottoman inventors, “as reported by the narrators of events and relators of traditions.” By turns humorous and touching, these interlinked stories are nutshells of vividly imagined past. While we follow Yafes Chelebi and his two successors in their search for the secret of the perpetual motion, the crumbling empire undergoes drastic changes in the background and the city of their dreams, Istanbul, witnesses coup d’états, Westernizing reforms, and the advent of technological innovation. Written in a unique idiom that is both a tender mimicry and witty parody of the Ottoman bureaucratic prose, The Book of Devices is Anar at his imaginative best. One cannot help but wonder how a twenty-first-century author can dwell in the past with such ease and come back to the present, as in a Borgesian parable, with a cabinet of dreamy curiosities.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: TRItem Height: 202mmItem Length: 132mmItem Width: 9mmItem Weight: 164gAuthor: Ihsan Oktay AnarGenre: FictionRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Book of Devices
Title: The Book of Devices
ISBN-10: 6059389740
EAN: 9786059389747
ISBN: 9786059389747
Release Date: 05/20/2021
Release Year: 2021
Country/Region of Manufacture: TR
Book Title: Book of Devices
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Koç Üniversitesi Yayinlari
Topic: Historical, Linguistics / General
Item Height: 0 in
Publication Year: 2021
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Fiction, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Weight: 5.8 Oz
Author: Ihsan Oktay Anar
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