A Once-Forgotten Novel Unites Turkish Readers in Troubled Times

ISTANBUL — A young Turkish man arrives in 1920s Berlin.

Ignoring his business of soap manufacturing, he spends his days learning German and his nights reading books — especially the Russians, and…

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He explores the city’s parks, its wide streets, its museums and…

He is looking, as he put it, for something, “to sweep me off my…

• A Once-Forgotten…