Istanbul diary

by Adrian Kenny

What was I doing there? Teaching English. But why Istanbul when I had a wife and children in Ireland? Because I couldn't get a job anywhere else.... That's Adrian Kenny's story. What about Tom? Edmund? Seamus? Deirdre? Geoffrey? - and the others who have ended up as English teachers employed by the mysterious Dr Norbert? Gradually, their stories - or parts of them - emerge. This is a travel book with a difference. Adrian Kenny describes not just the tourist's ancient city in its beauty and squalor, but sees it from the side streets and suburban tower blocks too, in snow and fog as well as in sunlight; while with a novelist's eye he follows the characters adrift from Ireland, England and elsewhere who have been cast up on the Bosphorous shore.
And then a strange thing happens....

148 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994