Motherland Hotel

Galleys will be provided to all sales reps and staff at CBSD, and sent to booksellers big on lit in translation (i.e. Stephen Sparks, Green Apple) so that we can solicit their comments/support ahead of time. Print campaign: LA Times, NY Times, Harper's, The Nation, London Review of Books, The Believer, Bomb, Bookforum, Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune, Minneapolis Star Tribune, SF Chronicle, Guardian UK, Toronto Globe & Mail, Miami Herald, Poets & Writers, NY Review of Books, New Yorker, Rain Taxi, Bloomsbury Review, Wall St Journal, Washington Post, World Literature Today, among other publications focused on world literature, contemporary fiction, and Middle East politics. We'll send to the trades: PW, Kirkus, Library Journal, and Booklist. Pursue Excerpts and/or Reviews in: Literary translation journals such as: eXchanges Journal of Literary Translation (University of Iowa), TWO LINES, Metamorphoses (Smith College), Circumference (Columbia University), Conjunctions (Bard College), Massachusetts Review, Banipal, and others. Online/social media campaign: Words Without Borders, Conversational Reading, Three Percent (University of Rochester), The Rumpus, World Literature Today, Bookslut, Salonica World Lit, Complete Review, Molussus, Awl, Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Wikipedia Radio: PRI's "The World" Endorsements: Pursue Orhan Pamuk, Susan Daitch, Maureen Freely, Martin Riker, Anthony Marra, Adam Kirsch, Megan O'Grady, Alberto Manguel, Rachel Cusk, David Lynch, Esmahan Aykol

Camus meets Orhan Pamuk, via Freud, in this existentialist novel by the father of Turkish modernism."My heroes are Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Oguz Atay, and Yusuf Atilgan. I have become a novelist by following their footsteps ...I love Yusuf Atilgan; he manages to remain local although he benefits from Faulkner's works and the Western traditions."--Orhan Pamuk "Motherland Hotel is a startling masterpiece, a perfect existential nightmare, the portrait of a soul lost on the threshold of an ever-postponed Eden."--Alberto Manguel "This moving and unsettling portrait of obsession run amok might have been written in 1970s Turkey, when social mores after Ataturk were still evolving, but it stays as relevant as the country struggles to save the very democratic ideals on which the Republic was rebirthed...brilliant writing ..."--Poornima Apte, Booklist, Starred Review "Turkish writer Atilgan's classic 1973 novel about alienation, obsession, and precipitous decline, nimbly translated by Stark...An unsettling study of a mind, steeped in violence, dropping off the edge of reason." --Kirkus Reviews "A maladroit loner who runs the seen-better-days Motherland Hotel in a backwater Turkish town, Zeberjet has become obsessed with a female guest who stayed there briefly and frantically anticipates her presumed return...as Zeberjet becomes increasingly unhinged, we're drawn into his dark interior life while coming to understand Turkey's post--Ottoman uncertainty. Sophisticated readers will understand why Atilgan is called the father of Turkish modernism, while those who enjoy dark psychological novels can also appreciate."--Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal "Yusuf Atilgan gives us a wonderful, timeless novel about obsession, with an anti-hero who is both victim and perpetrator, living out a life 'neither dead nor alive' in a sleepy Aegean city. Motherland Hotel is an absolute gem of Turkish literature."--Esmahan Aykol, author of Divorce Turkish Style "Yusuf Atilgan, like Patrick Modiano, demonstrates how the everyday can reflect larger passions and catastrophes. Beautifully written and translated, Motherland Hotel can finally find the wider audience in the west that it deserves." --Susan Daitch, author of The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir "The freedom that Atilgan articulates isn't the freedom of Lord Byron or Milton Friedman. It's more like the sense of freedom that comes with finally having a diagnoses. It's the freedom that comes from understanding that you're imprisoned in other people's' ideas of freedom. But there's a consolation...