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Istanbul noir / edited by Mustafa Ziyalan & Amy Spangler ; translated by Amy Spangler & Mustafa Ziyalan.

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New York : Akashic Books, c2008.

Detective and mystery stories, Turkish -- Translations into English.

Istanbul (Turkey) -- Fiction.

9781933354620 (pbk.) :

1933354623 (pbk.)

Akashic noir series.

277 p. : map ; 21 cm.

Pt. I. Lust & vengeance. The tongue of the flames / İsmail Güzelosoy -- Hitching in the Lodos / Feryal Tilmac -- The stepson / Mehmet Bilâl -- An extra body / Bariş Müstecaplioğlu -- Pt. II. Pushing limits, crossing lines. The smell of fish / Hikmet Hükümenoğlu -- All quiet / Jessica Lutz -- Around here, somewhere / Algan Sezgintüredi -- The spirit of philosophical vitriol / Lydia Lunch -- Pt. III. In the dark recesses. One among us / Yasemin Aydinoğlu -- Black palace / Mustafa Ziyalan -- So very familiar / Behçet Çelik -- The bloody horn / Inan Çetin -- A woman, any woman / Tarkan Barlas -- Pt. IV. Grief & grievances. Ordinary facts / Riza Kiraç -- Burn and go / Sadik Yemni -- the hand / Müge İplikçi.

From the pitch-black and the ephemeral to the realistic and the surreal, from the open-hearted and the fanatic to the malicious and sadistic, from the butcher out for meat to the lamb who wants to live, these stories rip away the enchanting facade to reveal the shadowy side of Istanbul's soul.

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