The Black Rose of Halfeti

by Nazlı Eray

The Black Rose of Halfeti opens with a letter delivered at midnight in Ankara, Turkey. In this letter, an elderly doctor who has begun to experience the first signs of dementia professes his love and desire for a relationship with the narrator, a woman in middle age beginning to contemplate her own mortality. From there, the novel moves between Mardin, Izmir, and Ankara; the past and the present; and the real and the imagined as the narrator...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477313095
• ISBN13: 9781477313091
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies Ut-Austin
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"