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WINNER OF THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

A stark and gripping tale of childhood grief from one of the most exciting new voices in Dutch literature

Ten-year-old Jas lives with her strictly religious parents and her siblings on a dairy farm where waste and frivolity are akin to sin. Despite the dreary routine of their days, Jas has a unique way of experiencing her world: her face soft like cheese under her mother’s hands; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads in the village; the sound of “blush words�� that aren’t in the Bible.

One icy morning, the disciplined rhythm of her family’s life is ruptured by a tragic accident, and Jas is convinced she is to blame. As her parents’ suffering makes them increasingly distant, Jas and her siblings develop a curiosity about death that leads them into disturbing rituals and fantasies. Cocooned in her red winter coat, Jas dreams of “the other side” and of salvation, not knowing where this dreaming will finally lead her.

A bestseller in the Netherlands, Lucas Rijneveld’s radical debut novel The Discomfort of Evening offers readers a rare vision of rural and religious life in the Netherlands. In it, he asks: In the absence of comfort and care, what can the mind of a child invent to protect itself? And what happens when that is not enough? With stunning psychological acuity and images of haunting, violent beauty, Rijneveld has created a captivating world of language unlike any other.

Wind/Pinball

Haruki Murakami

★★★★★

2016-05-03

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Wind/Pinball, a unique two-in-one volume, includes, on one side, Murakami’s first novel Hear the Wind Sing. When you flip the book over, you can read his second novel, Pinball, 1973. Each book has its own stunning cover.

In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels—Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973—that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors of our time.

These powerful, at times surreal, works about two young men coming of age—the unnamed narrator and his friend the Rat—are stories of loneliness, obsession, and eroticism. They bear all the hallmarks of Murakami’s later books, and form the first two-thirds, with A Wild Sheep Chase, of the trilogy of the Rat.

Widely available in English for the first time ever, newly translated, and featuring a new introduction by Murakami himself, Wind/Pinball gives us a fascinating insight into a great writer’s beginnings.

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Zülfü Livaneli

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

2020

The Heart's Invisible Furies

John Boyne

★★★★★

2017-08-22

Named Book of the Month Club's Book of the Year, 2017
Selected one of New York Times Readers’ Favorite Books of 2017
Winner of the 2018 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in post-war Ireland

Cyril Avery is not a real Avery -- or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he?

Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead. At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from - and over his many years, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country, and much more.

In this, Boyne's most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man. The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Jean-Dominique Bauby

★★★★★

2008-03-06

A triumphant memoir by the former editor-in-chief of French Elle that reveals an indomitable spirit and celebrates the liberating power of consciousness.

In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young children, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem.

After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him to see and, by blinking it, to make clear that his mind was unimpaired. Almost miraculously, he was soon able to express himself in the richest detail: dictating a word at a time, blinking to select each letter as the alphabet was recited to him slowly, over and over again. In the same way, he was able eventually to compose this extraordinary book.

By turns wistful, mischievous, angry, and witty, Bauby bears witness to his determination to live as fully in his mind as he had been able to do in his body. He explains the joy, and deep sadness, of seeing his children and of hearing his aged father's voice on the phone. In magical sequences, he imagines traveling to other places and times and of lying next to the woman he loves. Fed only intravenously, he imagines preparing and tasting the full flavor of delectable dishes. Again and again he returns to an "inexhaustible reservoir of sensations," keeping in touch with himself and the life around him.

Jean-Dominique Bauby died two days after the French publication of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. This book is a lasting testament to his life.

Emily St. John Mandel

★★★★★

2020-03-24

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events—the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.

“The perfect novel ... Freshly mysterious.” —The Washington Post

Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: Why don’t you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis's billion-dollar business is really nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors. When his scheme collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan’s wife, walks away into the night. Years later, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call.

In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives.

Look for Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!

The Great Railway Bazaar

Paul Theroux

★★★★★

1975

In this unique and hugely entertaining railway odyssey, Theroux vividly recounts his travels--and the people, places, and landscapes he encountered--on the Orient Express, the Khyber Mail, and the Trans-Siberian Express, through such countries as Turkey, Iran, India, Southeast Asia, Japan, and the Soviet Union.

Tehlikeli Oyunlar

Oğuz Atay

★★★★★

2019-01-24

Hikmet Benol, toplumdaki yoğun kargaşanın temelinde yatan gerçekliği araştırırken, gerçeklerle içtenlikle ilgilenmenin toplumu yönetenlerce tehlikeli görüldüğünü seziyor ve “oyun oynuyormuş gibi ilgilenme” yolunu seçiyor. Kişinin kendiyle savaşmasını ve yenmesini, kendini dönüştürmesini önemli bir sorun olarak algılamaya çağıran, çarpıcı ve sarsıcı bir roman.

Çorum kent morfolojisi

Dr. Aşır Yüksel KAYA, Doç.Dr. İlhan Oğuz AKDEMİR

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

2019-09-16

Kent; birçok insanın bir arada yaşadığı, her bir yapının ekonomik temeller

üzerine kurulduğu, apartman bloklarının arasına sıkışmış yaşantılar olmasının

ötesinde görünüşleri ne kadar farklı olursa olsun, yaşayanlarda aidiyet duygusu

oluşturan bir yerdir. Tıpkı bir bina, cadde, sokak gibi kent uzamda yer tutan bir

yapıdır. Bu yapı coğrafi uzamın en önemli unsurlarından biridir.

Bir kenti anlamak hiçbir zaman tek başına yeterli değildir. Çünkü bir kenti

anlamak sadece gördüklerimizden ibaret değildir. Kenti oluşturan her bir doku,

çevresiyle, geçmişiyle doğrudan bağlantılıdır. Kent, mekânda tıpkı bir bina gibi

sabit duran ancak her bir unsurun hareket ettiği değişken bir yapıdır. Bu hareket

özellikle de kenti oluşturan insanlar ve onların faaliyetleri ile kenti biçimlendirir.

Değişen, dönüşen ve farklılaşan kentin gelişimi ve biçimi üzerine ne kadar

önlem alınırsa alınsın düzenlenemez. Kent, yatayda ve dikeyde hareket ederek

çeperlerde kırsalın aleyhine gelişir. Kent çeperi, kentleşme ile birlikte en çabuk

değişen yerlerdir. Kent morfolojisi değişken kenti en genel hatlarıyla anlamak,

kenti oluşturan unsurların bir araya geliş biçimlerini, fiziksel biçimin zaman

içinde değişimini somutlaştırarak anlamada önemli bir yere sahiptir.

Ülkemizde 20. yüzyılın ikinci yarısı ile birlikte yaşanan hızlı kentleşme, hem

kırsal hemde kentsel alanları dönüştürmüştür. Çorum ve daha birçok kent bu

hızlı kentleşme süreçlerinden etkilenmiştir. Çorum’da nüfus artışına bağlı olarak

meydana gelen kentleşme, beraberinde kentsel dokuda değişmelere neden

olmuştur. Çorum, 1960-1980 yılları arasında gecekondu sorununun yaşandığı,

kent eşiklerinin yok sayıldığı, kentsel alt yapı ve donatıların kentsel ihtiyaçları

karşılayamadığı bir yerleşim birimi haline gelmiştir.

Yirminci yüzyılın ortalarından itibaren yaşanan dönüşüm, Çorum kentinin

morfolojisinde önemli değişikliklere sebebiyet vermiştir. Anadolu’nun en eski yerleşim

dokusuna sahip Çorum’da kentsel formun anlaşılması son derece önemlidir.

Çorum Kent Morfolojisi isimli bu doktora tez çalışmasında; Çorum kenti örnekleminde

kenti şekillendiren unsurlar coğrafi bir bakış açısı ile incelenmiş, kent

formunun ortaya çıkışı ve dönüşümü, fiziksel yapısı ve karakteri, zaman-mekân

değişimi analiz edilerek kentin morfolojik yapısı anlatılmaya çalışılmıştır.Değişen ve dönüşeni anlamak üzere bana her türlü desteğini veren, tezin ilk

cümlesinden son sözüne kadar emeği olan, beni her konuda cesaretlendiren, sahip

olduğum düşüncelere öncülük eden değerli hocam Doç. Dr. İlhan Oğuz Akdemir’e,

Tez yazım sürecinde desteklerinden dolayı Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Selçuk Hayli, Dr.

Öğr. Üyesi Bülent Güner ve jüri üyeleri Prof. Dr. Adem Başıbüyük ile Prof. Dr.

Hasan Kara’ya

Bu süre zarfında beni her konuda cesaretlendiren, yalnız bırakmayan sevgil