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Very fine and unread. Comes complete with the publisher’s publicity handout. This is the first time the work of Orhan Kemal, one of Turkey’s best-loved modern writers, has been seen in English. This volume comprises the first two in a series of semi-autobiographical novels set in the 1920s and 1930s as Turkey was undergoing its tumultuous transition from a fallen empire to a modern, industrialized republic. The book contains the novels – My Father’s House and The Idle Years. The unnamed narrator is growing up in an Adana village, in an affluent household led by his formidable father. Unfortunately the fact that his father is well born but notorious does not help him make his way in the world and things only begin to look up when he falls for a pretty young factory girl…” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH