The stories included in this book are selected from various books by the French writer Anatole France, who is considered one of the imams of French writers and a genius of thinkers in the modern era.
A poetic reckoning with Turkish history, fuelled by mysticismIn 1938, in the remote Dersim region of Eastern Anatolia, the Turkish Republic launched an operation to erase an entire community of Zaza-speaking Alevi Kurds.
On a far-off station in the depths of interstellar space, two AI consciousnesses, designed to monitor system operations, find themselves developing emotions for each other.
In this collection of short stories, Naguib Mahfouz deals with local situations and global conflicts in a manner characterized by hidden sarcasm, and relies on absurdity and strangeness in building his story worlds.
Ein schroffer, introvertierter Blumenhändler, der eine tiefe Liebe zu Blumen hegt, aber Probleme mit menschlichen Beziehungen hat, findet einen geheimnisvollen Liebesbrief.
