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Original title Balık İzlerinin Sesi Published in English 2002 Originally published 1992 OCLC 50318943 | 3.6/5 Goodreads Translator Pelin Arıner Publisher Remzi Kitabevi Published in english 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Sound of Fishsteps (Balık İzlerinin Sesi in Turkish) is a prize-winning novel by Turkish writer Buket Uzuner originally published in Turkish by Remzi Kitabevi in 1993 and in English translation in 2002.
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Turkish prodigy Afife Piri, a descendent of Ottoman-Turkish cartographer Piri Reis, is invited, along with 87 other international selects, to take part in a UN sponsored retreat in an unnamed Scandinavian city. At the retreat she encounters a man claiming to be the French novelist Romain Gary, with whom she falls in love, and the descendents of other iconoclastic geniuses including Joan of Arc, Anaïs Nin, Jawaharlal Nehru and Edvard Grieg. The mysterious director of the retreat, Dr. Gunnar, however, has a secret agenda that is slowly revealed.