{"product_id":"waiting-for-the-fear-oguz-atay-paperback","title":"Waiting for the Fear -- Oguz Atay, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eShort stories about people on the margins, from story peddlers to beggars, by one of Turkey's most innovative fiction writers, now in a new English translation.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA giant of modern Turkish literature, Oğuz Atay remains largely untranslated into English. First published in 1975, \u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Fear \u003c\/i\u003eis Atay's only collection of short stories, praised by the Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk for having transformed the art of short fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAtay's stories are vivid with life's absurdities and psychologically true to life, while his characters, oddballs and losers all, are utterly individual. A brilliant examiner of the inner life, Atay is no less aware of the flawed social world in which his people struggle to make their way, and he is exceptionally attuned to the strange power storytelling itself can exert over fate. In the title story, a nameless young man returns to his home on the outskirts of an enormous nameless city to discover that he has received a letter in a language he neither knows nor recognizes--after which, step by step, the inscrutable missive reshapes his world. In \"Railroad Storytellers: A Dream,\" a professional story peddler lives in a hut beside a train station in a country that is at war--unless it isn't. He can't remember. What do such life and death realities matter, however, so long as there are stories to tell? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRalph Hubbell's fluent and vigorous English rendering of this key work of world literature is a revelation.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oguz Atay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 10\/22\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0\" H x 0\" L x 0\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781681377964\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49535025971504,"sku":"9781681377964","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9781681377964.jpg?v=1774433511","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/waiting-for-the-fear-oguz-atay-paperback","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}