{"product_id":"shadowless-by-hasan-ali-toptas","title":"'Shadowless' by Hasan Ali Toptaş","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"35\" data-end=\"390\"\u003eA strange, looping, village-haunted novel from one of Turkey’s major contemporary writers.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"35\" data-end=\"390\"\u003eIn a remote Anatolian village, people begin to disappear: a barber, a girl, a child, a presence, a certainty. The authorities search, rumours breed, reality thins, and the village becomes less a stable place than a system of echoes, absences and half-explanations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"392\" data-end=\"837\"\u003eToptaş writes in that borderland between fable, philosophical mystery and rural uncanny: Kafka by way of oral storytelling, with something of Borges, Calvino and Márquez in the way the world keeps folding back on itself. It is a novel about disappearance, but also about narration itself — who gets remembered, who gets swallowed by a story, and what remains when a community can no longer tell the difference between fact, dream, myth and fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"839\" data-end=\"1173\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBloomsbury hardback. First published in Turkey as \u003cem data-start=\"918\" data-end=\"931\"\u003eGölgesizler\u003c\/em\u003e in 1995; first published in Great Britain in this English translation in 2017. Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely and John Angliss. Good second-hand condition, with visible edge\/corner wear and some creasing\/handling to the cover.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45689935822931,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker_83.png?v=1781165749","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/shadowless-by-hasan-ali-toptas","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}