The Other Side of the Mountain - Paperback

by Erendiz Atasu (Author), Elizabeth Malsen (Translator)

Tracing the lives of three generations of a Turkish family, from the Ottoman Empire to the 1990s, this winner of Turkey's most prestigious literary prize follows a daughter who journeys back to her mother's student days at Cambridge and later struggles to find a place in Ataturk's new social order.

Author Biography

Erendiz Atasu is one of Turkey's most prominent and prolific writers. While working as professor of pharamacognosy at Ankara University, Erendiz wrote short stories and essays on feminism.