Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale Biographies and possibilities taking their places

and possibilities taking their places as elements of a fiction in the narrator's mind

a bored dilettante who constructs an imaginary woman—and loses her to an imaginary man

times that swallowed

Jung Young-moon’s short stories have nonetheless won numerous readers both in Korea and abroad

proving once again that American literature has no better poet of love and loss than Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale Biographies and possibilities taking their placesIstanbul Was a Fairy Tale tells the stories of three generations of a Jewish family, from the 1920s to the 1980s. Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale tells the stories of three generations of a Jewish family, from the 1920s to the 1980s. Istanbul is their only home, and yet they live in a state of alienation, isolating themselves from the world around them. As witness, observer, and protagonist, the narratorat once inside and outside his storyrecords their many