Description In Ayse Papatya Bucak\'s dreamlike narratives, dead girls recount the effects of an earthquake and a chess-playing automaton falls in love.
Surreal and poignant, they examine the tension between myth and history, cultural categories and personal identity, performance and authenticity..
A joy and a provocation, Bucak\'s Stories confront the nature of historical memory with humor and humanity.
And in the masterful title story, the Greek god Apollo confronts his personal history and bewails his Homeric reputation as he tries to memorialize, and make sense of, generations of war.
An Ottoman ambassador in Paris amasses a tantalizing collection of erotic art.
The anguish of an Armenian refugee is "performed" at an American fund-raiser.
A Turkish wrestler, a hero in the East, is seen as a brute in the West.
A student stops eating and no one knows whether her act is personal or political.
Description In Ayse Papatya Bucak\'s dreamlike narratives, dead girls recount the effects of an earthquake and a chess-playing automaton falls in love
