Aysegul Savas

On the Calculation of Volume

by Solvej Balle

“In this novel, a woman wakes up to the same day for every day of a year. The damp November light filtering through her home in Clairon-sous-Bois in France, the sound of the kettle, the opening and closing of doors, the afternoon rain, take on new meaning as we furrow deeper into the time and space.” — via Article

Istanbul

Memories and the City

by Orhan Pamuk · 2003 · Memoir

“Reading Pamuk's work has changed the ways I view my native city. I have learned to love Istanbul through his writing and have often hoped to see the city as he does, with its magnificent, melancholy ruins.” — via Article

Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf · 1925 · Fiction

“The city is humming with mechanics: automobiles, clocks, airplanes. It bustles with daily activity, from doctor's appointments to mail deliveries. As much as by their pasts, the characters are shaped by all the forces of the city, and the rush of a single day.” — via Article

Like a Sky Inside

by Jakuta Alikavazovic · 2024 · Memoir

“The author encounters also the ghost of her father and their trips to the museum in her childhood, when he would ask her how she might go about stealing the Mona Lisa” — via Article

The Fish Can Sing

by Halldor Laxness · 1957 · Fiction

“And this is where our narrator, the orphan Alfgrimur, grows up, among cod fishermen and eccentric pastors, and one day meets Iceland's most famous singer.” — via Article

Strange Weather in Tokyo

by Hiromi Kawakami · 2001 · Fiction

“Viewed through drinks at train station bars, walks through sprawling markets, trips to pick mushrooms, and meals at lantern-lit izakayas, the Tokyo of this magical novel unravels piece by intimate piece.” — via Article