Book of the day: Oya Baydar/Farewell Alyosha
If you haven’t read one of Oya Baydar’s books, Farewell Alyosha will be a good start. Her book “Farewell Alyosha”, which compiled 12 stories of exile, was published in Turkey in 1991 and was awarded the Sait Faik Story Prize. She won the Yunus Nadi Novel Prize in 1993 with her novel Cat Letters. “Returning Nowhere” was published in 1998
. “Hot Ashes Remain”, published in 2000, won the Orhan Kemal Novel Prize. She received her next award, the Cevdet Kudret Literature Prize, with “The Gate of the Judas Tree”, which was published in 2004. Her latest novel “The Lost Word” was published in 2008 and the same year it was translated to German.