The Time Regulation Institute

by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

Book Overview

A literary discovery: an uproarious tragicomedy of modernization, in its first-ever English translation

Perhaps the greatest Turkish novel of the twentieth century, being discovered around the world only now, more than fifty years after its first publication, The Time Regulation Institute is an antic, freewheeling send-up of the modern bureaucratic state.

At its center is Hayri Irdal, an infectiously charming...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143106732
• ISBN13: 9780143106739
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.0" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher