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title: "The Garden of the Departed Cats"
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# The Garden of the Departed Cats

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Review: Turkish Tales - Translated from the Turkish, this work is more a collection of stories and fables than a novel. Most were written in the 1960's and 1970's. (The author died in 1995.) One fable of the main character recruited into a live village chess game stitches the stories together. A lot of the stories remind me a bit of Kurt Vonnegut or even the old TV series, Twilight Zone: a man waits day after day for a bus that never comes; a traveling monk has an animal attached to his bowels; a tourist gets trapped in an endless tunnel under beach-side cliffs; a trapeze artist has premonitions of when his fellow-artists will die; an at first island grows, then sinks under the sea while the inhabitants frantically dig out their harbor; a scientist experiments with a plant that takes away the ability of people to lie. Certain themes reappear: the lonely male intellectual; the traveler; the sea. Some of the stories are good but, all in all, the book is a bit of a chore to read.
Review: A book I re-read - Great book, great author, great translation.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #3,583,055 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #79,994 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (2) |
| Dimensions  | 5.2 x 0.8 x 8 inches |
| ISBN-10  | 0811215512 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0811215510 |
| Item Weight  | 9.9 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 240 pages |
| Publication date  | January 12, 2004 |
| Publisher  | New Directions |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐ Turkish Tales
*by J***A on July 7, 2013*

Translated from the Turkish, this work is more a collection of stories and fables than a novel. Most were written in the 1960's and 1970's. (The author died in 1995.) One fable of the main character recruited into a live village chess game stitches the stories together. A lot of the stories remind me a bit of Kurt Vonnegut or even the old TV series, Twilight Zone: a man waits day after day for a bus that never comes; a traveling monk has an animal attached to his bowels; a tourist gets trapped in an endless tunnel under beach-side cliffs; a trapeze artist has premonitions of when his fellow-artists will die; an at first island grows, then sinks under the sea while the inhabitants frantically dig out their harbor; a scientist experiments with a plant that takes away the ability of people to lie. Certain themes reappear: the lonely male intellectual; the traveler; the sea. Some of the stories are good but, all in all, the book is a bit of a chore to read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A book I re-read
*by P***0 on July 26, 2017*

Great book, great author, great translation.

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