Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale

About this book

A major work of contemporary Turkish literature Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale tells the stories of three generations of a Jewish family from the 1920s to the 1980s. Istanbul is their only home and yet they live in a state of alienation isolating themselves from the world around them. As witness observer and protagonist the narrator at once inside and outside of his story records their many tales as well as those of their friends and neighbors creating an expansive mosaic of characters each doing their best to survive the twentieth century.