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Wûf
A metaphorical love story that grapples with memory, storytelling, and vengeance in a time of war.
Series: CMES Emerging Voices from the Middle East
Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas
January 2020
Available
$16.00
ISBN:
978-1-4773-1948-2
Description:
Told through the voice of a canine narrator, Wûf is a surrealist wartime love story set in Turkey in the 1990s. The novel follows Mikasa, a street dog who recounts a tale of tragic wartime love at a kennel where he finds solace in storytelling and cigarettes. A book that took the Turkish literary world by storm, Kemal Varol’s Wûf tackles universal themes of love and loss with both humor and pathos. Translated by PEN/Heim Award winner Dayla Rogers, the novel renders in English a one-of-a-kind love story with a narrator its readers won’t soon forget.
