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.
| ISBN: | 9781477319482 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 2020 |
| Author: | Kemal Varol |
| Publisher: | Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin an imprint of Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 170 pages |
| Series: | Emerging Voices from the Middle East |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Narrative theme: Love and relationships Fiction in translation Middle Eastern history General Fiction |