" Sava ] writes with both sensuality and coolness, as if determined to find a rational explanation for the irrationality of existence..." -- The New York Times "I fell in love with this book." -- Katie Kitamura, author of A Separation A mesmerizing novel set in Paris and a changing Istanbul, about a young Turkish woman grappling with her past and her complicated relationship with a famous British writer.
She teaches at the Sorbonne and lives in Paris..
She has an MFA from the University of San Francisco.
Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Guernica, and elsewhere, and was shortlisted for the Glimmer Train Fiction Prize and the Graywolf Emerging Writers Award.
About the Author: Ay eg l Sava grew up in Turkey and Denmark.
A wise and unguarded glimpse into a young woman\'s coming into her own, Walking on the Ceiling is about memory, the pleasure of invention, and those places, real and imagined, we can\'t escape.
Most of all, she fears that she will have to face her own guilt about her mother and the narratives she\'s told to protect herself from her memories. and of giving too much of herself and her Istanbul away.
Their intimacy deepens, so does Nunu\'s fear of revealing too much to M.
As she does so, she also begins to confront her mother\'s silence and anger, her father\'s death, and the growing unrest in Istanbul.
She recounts the idyllic landscapes of her past, mythical family meals, and her elaborate childhood games. is working on a new novel set in Turkey and Nunu tells him about her family, hoping to impress and inspire him.
M.
What follows is an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks around the city.
They find themselves Walking the streets of Paris and talking late into the night.
One day outside of a bookstore, she meets M., an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired.
After her mother\'s death, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. " Sava ] writes with both sensuality and coolness, as if determined to find a rational explanation for the irrationality of existence..." -- The New York Times "I fell in love with this book." -- Katie Kitamura, author of A Separation A mesmerizing novel set in Paris and a changing Istanbul, about a young Turkish woman grappling with her past and her complicated relationship with a famous British writer
