Coşkun Büktel's Fiasco in English!

Translator: Feyza Howell – Turkish pub. date: May 2008 – Measurements: 14 x 21 cm – Price: 14 YTL/$17.95 – ISBN: 978-9944-424-42-4

Fiasco, Coşkun Büktel’s darkly humorous novel set in Istanbul, is now out in English translation. Meet the cast of crazy characters whose lives irrevocably intersect: Mesut, a bookish former interpreter, depressed and on the verge of suicide. Ayten, the attractive poet with whom he falls in love after a chance meeting in a bookshop. Özdemir, a young shipowner fed up with his rich, older, and very jealous wife Müyesser. Zehra, Özdemir’s mistress, who will stop at nothing in order to have Özdemir for herself. Cafer, Sipsi, and Zekai, the members of a ragtag Mafia gang obsessed with revenge…
Throw in the real-life November 2003 bombings of Istanbul’s British Consulate and HSBC headquarters, plus the vibrant, chaotic metropolis of Istanbul itself, and the result is a fast-paced, highly entertaining novel that you won’t be able to put down!