A literary discovery: an uproarious tragicomedy of modernization, in its first-ever English translation Perhaps the greatest Turkish novel of the twentieth century, being discovered around the world only now, more than fifty years after its first publication, The Time Regulation Institute is an antic, freewheeling send-up of the modern bureaucratic state. At its center is Hayri Irdal, an infectiously charming antihero who becomes entangled with an eccentric cast of characters—a television mystic, a pharmacist who dabbles in alchemy, a dignitary from the lost Ottoman Empire, a “clock whisperer”—at the Time Regulation Institute, a vast organization that employs a hilariously intricate system of fines for the purpose of changing all the clocks in Turkey to Western time. Recounted in sessions with his psychoanalyst, the story of Hayri Irdal’s absurdist misadventures plays out as a brilliant allegory of the collision of tradition and modernity, of East and West, infused with a poignant blend of hope for the promise of the future and nostalgia for a simpler time. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Time Regulation Institute

Literature & Fiction

Tanpınar, Ahmet Hamdi

Dramas & Plays

Penguin Publishing Group

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.

A Mind at Peace

Archipelago Books

Gurol, Ender

Contemporary

Turko Tatar Pr

Seelenfrieden

Unionsverlag

Seelenfrieden: Nachwort von Wolfgang Günter Lerch

Literary

Huzur (Arabic Edition)

Arab Scientific Publishers

Lluvia de verano

Editorial Sexto Piso

Cinco ciudades

İki ateş arasında: Senaryo (Edebiyat dizisi) (Turkish Edition)

İyi Şeyler Yayıncılık

Saatleri Ayarlama Enstit�s�

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