Istanbul Noir - Mustafa Ziyalan [106]
From Stazione Termini, immortalized by Roberto Rossellini’s films, to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s desolate beach of Ostia, and encompassing famous landmarks and streets, this is the sinister side of the Dolce Vita come to life, a stunning gallery of dark characters, grotesques, and lost souls seeking revenge or redemption in the shadow of the Colosseum, the Spanish Steps, the Vatican, Trastevere, the quiet waters of the Tiber, and Piazza Navona. Rome will never be the same.
BROOKLYN NOIR
edited by Tim McLoughlin
350 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
*Winner of Shamus Award, Anthony Award, Robert L. Fish Memorial Award; finalist for Edgar Award, Pushcart Prize.
Brand new stories by: Pete Hamill, Arthur Nersesian, Ellen Miller, Nelson George, Nicole Blackman, Sidney Offit, Ken Bruen, and others.
“Brooklyn Noir is such a stunningly perfect combination that you can’t believe you haven’t read an anthology like this before. But trust me— you haven’t. Story after story is a revelation, filled with the requisite sense of place, but also the perfect twists that crime stories demand. The writing is flat-out superb, filled with lines that will sing in your head for a long time to come.”
—Laura Lippman, winner of the Edgar, Agatha, and Shamus awards
LOS ANGELES NOIR
edited by Denise Hamilton
360 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
*A Los Angeles Times best seller and winner of an Edgar Award.
Brand new stories by: Michael Connelly, Janet Fitch, Susan Straight, Héctor Tobar, Patt Morrison, Robert Ferrigno, Neal Pollack, Gary Phillips, Christopher Rice, Naomi Hirahara, Jim Pascoe, and others.
“Akashic is making an argument about the universality of noir; it’s sort of flattering, really, and Los Angeles Noir, arriving at last, is a kaleidoscopic collection filled with the ethos of noir pioneers Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
HAVANA NOIR
edited by Achy Obejas
360 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand new stories by: Leonardo Padura, Pablo Medina, Carolina García-Aguilera, Ena Lucía Portela, Miguel Mejides, Arnaldo Correa, Alex Abella, Moisés Asís, Lea Aschkenas, and others.
“A remarkable collection … Throughout these 18 stories, current and former residents of Havana—some well-known, some previously undiscovered—deliver gritty tales of depravation, depravity, heroic perseverance, revolution, and longing in a city mythical and widely misunderstood.” —Miami Herald
TRINIDAD NOIR
edited by Lisa Allen-Agostini & Jeanne Mason
340 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95
Brand new stories by: Robert Antoni, Elizabeth Nunez, Lawrence Scott, Oonya Kempadoo, Ramabai Espinet, Shani Mootoo, Kevin Baldeosingh, elisha efua bartels, Tiphanie Yanique, Willi Chen, and others.
“For sheer volume, few—anywhere—can beat [V.S.] Naipaul’s prodigious output. But on style, the writers in the Trinidadian canon can meet him eye to eye … Trinidad is no one-trick pony, literarily speaking.” —Coeditor Lisa Allen-Agostini in the New York Times
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Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I: LUST & VENGEANCE
İSMAİL GÜZELSOY
The Tongue of the Flames
FER YAL TİLMAÇ
Hitching in the Lodos
MEHMET BİLÂL
The Stepson
BARIŞ MÜSTECAPLIOĞLU
An Extra Body
PART II: PUSHING LIMITS, CROSSING LINES
HİKMET HÜKÜMENOĞLU
The Smell of Fish
JESSICA LUTZ
All Quiet
ALGAN SEZGİNTÜREDİ
Around Here, Somewhere
LYDIA LUNCH
The Spirit of Philosophical Vitriol
PART III: IN THE DARK RECESSES
YASEMİN AYDINOĞLU
One Among Us
MUSTAFA ZİYALAN
Black Palace
BEHÇET ÇELİK
So Very Familiar
İNAN ÇETİN
The Bloody Horn
TARKAN BARLAS
A Woman, Any Woman
PART IV: GRIEF & GRIEVANCES
RIZA KIRAÇ
Ordinary Facts