TURKS AT HOME
PORTRAIT OF A TURKISH FAMILY, by Sten Orga; Victor Gollancz.\ English price, 16/-. HIS is not so much a portrait of a family as a tribute to the author’s mother, a lady whose misfortunes
brought her to die in a madhouse. Irfan’ Orga’s father and uncle both died in the 1914-18 War. A fire (apparently a commonplacé of Turkish urban life) destroyed nearly all the family property. His mother struggled heroically to earn the family’s living. After her two sons (one of them the author of this book) had been accepted by the military academy, the family again reached a position of’ comparative ease, but the strain of the hard years had been too much for the charming sensitive Sevkiye. The book bridges the crucial years of the development of modern Turkey, but although it throws some incidental light on Turkish social life, the great changes of the times do not take as large a place in it as might have been expected. It is essentially a personal book, its central tragedy often relieved by laughter and the small triumphs and disasters of family life; Turkey proves after all not so very different from New Zealand.
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 622, 1 June 1951, Page 13
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201TURKS AT HOME New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 622, 1 June 1951, Page 13
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