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This is the story of the misadventures of Hayri Irdals, an unforgettable antihero who, along with an eccentric cast of characters (a television mystic, a pharmacist who dabbles in alchemy, a dignitary from the lost Ottoman empire, the 'life-artist' Halit), founds The Time Regulation Institute. The institute's quixotic quest: to make sure all the clocks in Turkey are set to Western time. Thus begins a brilliant satire about the calamitous arrival of Western and corporate values in tradition-bound Turkey.
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The Time Regulation Institute, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2014
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- Titel
- The Time Regulation Institute
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
- Verlag
- Penguin
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2014
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0141195754
- ISBN13
- 9780141195759
- Kategorie
- Weltprosa
- Beschreibung
- This is the story of the misadventures of Hayri Irdals, an unforgettable antihero who, along with an eccentric cast of characters (a television mystic, a pharmacist who dabbles in alchemy, a dignitary from the lost Ottoman empire, the 'life-artist' Halit), founds The Time Regulation Institute. The institute's quixotic quest: to make sure all the clocks in Turkey are set to Western time. Thus begins a brilliant satire about the calamitous arrival of Western and corporate values in tradition-bound Turkey.