The international bestselling tale of love and loss in 1920s Berlin, now a Penguin Classics paperback
'The pain of losing something precious can be forgotten over time. But our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache.'
A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade and discover life in 1920s Berlin. There, amid the city's bustling streets, elegant museums, passionate politics and seedy cabarets, a chance meeting transforms his life forever. Caught between his desire for freedom and his yearning to belong, he struggles to hold on to the new life he has found.
The international bestselling tale of love and loss in 1920s Berlin, now a Penguin Classics paperback
'The pain of losing something precious can be forgotten over time. But our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache.'
A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade and discover life in 1920s Berlin. There, amid the city's bustling streets, elegant museums, passionate politics and seedy cabarets, a chance meeting transforms his life forever. Caught between his desire for freedom and his yearning to belong, he struggles to hold on to the new life he has found.
The surprise bestseller set in 1920s Berlin, now a Penguin Classics paperback.
Sabahattin Ali (Author)
Sabahattin Ali (1907-1948) was born in the Ottoman town of Egridere
(now Ardino in southern Bulgaria). A teacher, novelist, short-story
writer and journalist, he owned and edited a popular weekly
newspaper called Marko Pasa. He is admired for the determination
with which he defended his political beliefs, which are anchored
through his writing. Madonna in A Fur Coat, first published in
1943, is his best loved work and a touchstone of Turkish literary
culture which continues to resonate profoundly with readers young
and old today.
Maureen Freely (Translator)
Maureen Freely is a writer, a Professor at Warwick University, and
the Chair of Trustees of English PEN. She has published seven
novels and numerous translations of twentieth century Turkish
classics and contemporary authors including five books by the Nobel
Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk.
Alexander Dawe (Translator)
Alexander Dawe has translated several works from French and Turkish
including the short stories of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar and Sait Faik.
A tale of young love and disenchantment, of missed opportunities
and passion's elusive, flickering flame . . . reminiscent of
Turgenev's First Love, with a hero every bit as gauche, and a twist
every bit as bitter
*Financial Times*
The magical novel about a Turkish man who falls in love with an
artist in 1920s Berlin ... recreates a vanished era and dramatises
a doomed relationship, and does so with verve, depth and poignancy.
The result is a miniature masterpiece.
*The National*
A heart-breaker . . . it has the kind of indefinably powerful
impact of The Great Gatsby
*Observer*
A poignant coming-of-age tale, drenched in disillusionment. The gap
between hope and reality, art and ordinary life, has been explored
in many other novels, but rarely with the unaffected simplicity of
Madonna in a Fur Coat.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Moving and memorable, full of yearning and melancholy ... reading
it is like taking a literary minibreak
*The Times*
A gorgeously melancholic romance . . . a cautionary tale certain to
beguile
*Irish Times*
The surprise bestseller ... read, loved and wept over by men and
women of all ages
*Guardian*
You think you know yearning . . . you think you know the fleeting
nature of happiness . . . you think you know unrequited love, you
think you know lyrical writing . . . and then you read Madonna in a
Fur Coat
*Jack Edwards*
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