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Kaya Genç

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Kaya Genç is the author of three books from Bloomsbury Publishing: The Lion and the Nightingale (2019), Under the Shadow (2016) and An Istanbul Anthology (2015). The Economist called Under the Shadow a ‘refreshingly balanced’ book whose author ‘has announced himself as a voice to be listened to’. The Los Angeles Review of Books described An Istanbul Anthology as ‘a compellingly real picture of the city’. Kaya has contributed to the world’s leading journals and newspapers, including two front page stories in The New York Times, cover stories in The New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs and The Times Literary Supplement, and essays and articles in The New Yorker, The Nation, The Paris Review, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The New Sta ...more

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	Dr. Jekyll ve Bay Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Vladimir Nabokov (Foreword), Kaya Genç (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.83 avg rating — 677,769 ratings — published 1886 — 8672 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sherlock Holmes'un Maceraları by Arthur Conan Doyle, Kaya Genç (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Berrak Göçer (Translator) 4.30 avg rating — 329,542 ratings — published 1892 — 6728 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kâtip Bartleby by Herman Melville, Kaya Genç (Goodreads Author) (translator) 3.93 avg rating — 77,221 ratings — published 1853 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sokaktaki Adam by Philip Roth, Kaya Genç (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.63 avg rating — 21,736 ratings — published 2006 — 134 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Önemsiz Bir Adamın Günlüğü by George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith, Kaya Genç (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.68 avg rating — 18,332 ratings — published 1892 — 719 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Under the Shadow: Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey 3.82 avg rating — 92 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lion and the Nightingale: A Journey through Modern Turkey 3.49 avg rating — 63 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Istanbul Anthology: Travel Writing through the Centuries by Kaya Genç (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Giacomo Casanova, Gérard de Nerval 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Şehir 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Macera 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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