{"id":29366,"date":"2010-12-19T20:01:37","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T18:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=29366"},"modified":"2010-12-19T20:01:37","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T18:01:37","slug":"the-book-of-istanbul-edited-by-jim-hinks-and-gul-turner-%e2%80%93-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/12\/19\/the-book-of-istanbul-edited-by-jim-hinks-and-gul-turner-%e2%80%93-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Istanbul, edited by Jim Hinks and Gul Turner \u2013 review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul spans the largest metropolitan area in Europe, so it&#8217;s hardly surprising that most of the 10 authors represented in this anthology express concerns about the traffic. Nedim Gursel writes of a furious, gun-wielding sergeant shouting at the cars: &#8220;For some reason he threatened to burn rather than roast errant drivers. Just for taking the roundabout carelessly, he would burn us.&#8221; The religious rifts of a city straddling two continents are concisely dealt with in Muge Iplikci&#8217;s story of a female student prohibited from wearing the hijab: &#8220;She would give up a piece of herself, first a headscarf . . . In the end she would leave college behind her like some forgotten item on a bench.&#8221; Sema Kaygusuz is worried about feral cats overrunning a city where &#8220;almost everybody&#8217;s ancestors come from somewhere else&#8221;, while Ozen Yula spins an elliptical parable about a panther who devours a schoolchild and is beaten by its keepers with iron rods. One hopes there&#8217;s a metaphorical element to this tale, otherwise it&#8217;s a terrible indictment of Turkish zoos.<\/p>\n<p>via The Book of Istanbul, edited by Jim Hinks and Gul Turner \u2013 review | Books | The Guardian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul spans the largest metropolitan area in Europe, so it&#8217;s hardly surprising that most of the 10 authors represented in this anthology express concerns about the traffic. Nedim Gursel writes of a furious, gun-wielding sergeant shouting at the cars: &#8220;For some reason he threatened to burn rather than roast errant drivers. Just for taking the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":25767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}