A Mind at Peace

Synopsis

Librarian note: Alternate cover edition of: 9780976395096 Set on the eve of World War II, A Mind at Peace captures the anxieties of a Turkish family facing the difficult reality entrenched in the early republic, founded on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire in 1923. Poetically drawing on the effects of cultural upheaval on the individual, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar illuminates the precarious balance between tradition and modernity, East and West. Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar has been noted as the most prominant Turkish novelist of the twentieth century.