Walking on the Ceiling

✍ Scribed by Aysegül Savas

• Book ID: 100544171
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 95 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0525537414

✦ Synopsis

****"[Sava ş] 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.

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After her mother's death, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. One day outside of a bookstore, she meets M., an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris and talking late into the night. What follows is an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks around the city.
M. is working on a new novel set in Turkey and Nunu tells him about her family, hoping to impress and inspire him. She recounts the idyllic...