Tales and Legends of Turkey

Written by Dor Rémy
Illustrated by Strassmann Susanne

  • Novel with illustrations
  • Tales and Legends
  • Age group: 10 and up
  • Pages: 224
  • Format: 12,5 x 22,5 cm
  • Hardcover
  • RP: 20 euros

This book invites us to discover the wealth of traditional Turkish folktales, from the etiological to the marvelous to a little-known genre much appreciated by the Turks: tales of liars in which each lair tries to outdo all the others with the most extravagant tale possible. Down winding paths through the land of legend, readers will come to know tricksters and thieves, brave women ready to defend their families and loved ones at any cost, famous and forgotten heroes from all over Turkey.

We will also hear bewitching legends about how certain cities and mythic monuments came to be.

In a bright, shimmering style, the translator has inserted short poems (tekerlemé) that whisk us away into an unorthodox and poetic world.

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