The Garden of Departed Cats
by Bilge Karasu
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"A surreal, utterly unique novel.
In an ancient Mediterranean city, a tradition is maintained: every ten years an archaic game of human chess is staged, the players (visitors versus locals) bearing weapons. This archaic game, the central event of The Garden of the Departed Cats, may prove as fatal as the deadly attraction our narrator feels for the local man who is the Vizier, or Captain, of the home team. Their "romance" provides the skeletal structure of this experimental novel.
Each of their brief interactions works as a single chapter. And interleaved between their chapters are a dozen fable-like stories, which work independently of the main
narrative but echo and double its chief themes: love, its recalcitrance, its cat-like
finickiness, and its refusal to be rushed."
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Author Biography
Bilge Karasu (1930-1995) is an influential reference point in the progress of Turkish fiction writing. A perfectionist, a philosopher, and a master of literary arts, Karasu published four books of short stories, three novels and four collections of essays. His first novel Gece (Night) is the winner of the 1991 Pegasus Literature Award; Uzun Sürmüş bir Günün Akşamı (The Evening of a Very Long Day) was elected by the European Society of Authors to the Schwob list of “under-translated modern classics”, and the English translation of Karasu’s Göçmüş Kediler Bahçesi (The Garden of Departed Cats) by Aron Aji was awarded the 2004 National Translation Award in the USA.
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English: New Directions
Korean: Sigongsa
Russian: Amphora
Spanish (Peru): Estruendomudo
Ukrainian: Folio
German: Literaturca (reverted)
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- Publisher Metis Publishers
- Orginal LanguageTurkish
- ISBN/Identifier 9789753420631
- Publication Country or regionTurkey
- FormatPaperback
- Pages232
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleGöçmüş Kediler Bahçesi
- SeriesLiterature
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