Shadowless - Hasan Ali Toptas

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Résumé :
In an Anatolian village forgotten both by God and the government, the muhtar has been elected leader for the sixteenth successive year. When he drunkenly staggers to bed that night, the village is prospering. But when he awakes to discover that Nuri, the barber, has disappeared in the dead of night the community begins to fracture.

In a nameless town, far far away, Nuri walks into a barber shop, not knowing how he has arrived. As customers come and go, they too struggle to recall where they came from. Blurring the lines of reality to terrific effect, this novel is both a compelling mystery and an enduring evocation of displacement.

Biographie:
Hasan Ali Toptas is one of Turkey's leading writers. His prize-winning novels have been translated into many languages. Reckless was longlisted for the FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Award 2016 and Shadowless has been made into a film.

Maureen Freely is the translator of Orhan Pamuk's Snow and The Museum of Innocence. John Angliss won the British Council's inaugural Young Translators' Prize for Prose 2012.