| Author: | Atulya K Bingham | ISBN: | 1230000231200 |
| Publisher: | Mudhouse | Publication: | April 8, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Atulya K Bingham |
| ISBN: | 1230000231200 |
| Publisher: | Mudhouse |
| Publication: | April 8, 2014 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Joint winner of the 2014 ONE BIG BOOK LAUNCH (London).
'Beautifully written.' Sarah Juckes, Completely Novel
'Atulya K. Bingham has breathed new life into one of Turkey's most beautiful surviving outposts of accessible mountain wilderness.' Hugh Pope, Today's Zaman.
'If you're looking for a new book about Turkey, this should be it.' Natalie Sayin, Turkish Travel Blog
Set in the gateway between worlds that is Turkey, Ayşe's Trail is a novel about inner and outer journeys, returning to the wilderness and a lost civilisation.
Ayşe is a Turkish mother looking for direction. On a whim she decides to hike the Lycian Way for inspiration, and to escape her dark past in Istanbul. But the paths of Lycia are littered with ghosts. The rocks hold the ancients inside them. Unknown to Ayşe, as she clambers over the precipices of the Mediterranean coast and through its lost cities, she is walking in someone else’s footsteps. 2500 years earlier, when Lycia was an independent state and worshipped the Goddess Leto, the Persian general Harpagos was stomping along the very same road in a bid to take over the ancient world.
As Ayşe continues her lone, meandering odyssey, the past proves tricky to leave behind. Because time is not what we think it is. And a map can only ever tell so much of what a trail is all about.
Based on the true story of Ayşe Metin and the history of hearsay and half-truths that is the life of General Harpagos.
Joint winner of the 2014 ONE BIG BOOK LAUNCH (London).
'Beautifully written.' Sarah Juckes, Completely Novel
'Atulya K. Bingham has breathed new life into one of Turkey's most beautiful surviving outposts of accessible mountain wilderness.' Hugh Pope, Today's Zaman.
'If you're looking for a new book about Turkey, this should be it.' Natalie Sayin, Turkish Travel Blog
Set in the gateway between worlds that is Turkey, Ayşe's Trail is a novel about inner and outer journeys, returning to the wilderness and a lost civilisation.
Ayşe is a Turkish mother looking for direction. On a whim she decides to hike the Lycian Way for inspiration, and to escape her dark past in Istanbul. But the paths of Lycia are littered with ghosts. The rocks hold the ancients inside them. Unknown to Ayşe, as she clambers over the precipices of the Mediterranean coast and through its lost cities, she is walking in someone else’s footsteps. 2500 years earlier, when Lycia was an independent state and worshipped the Goddess Leto, the Persian general Harpagos was stomping along the very same road in a bid to take over the ancient world.
As Ayşe continues her lone, meandering odyssey, the past proves tricky to leave behind. Because time is not what we think it is. And a map can only ever tell so much of what a trail is all about.
Based on the true story of Ayşe Metin and the history of hearsay and half-truths that is the life of General Harpagos.
