by Nedim Gürsel · Alianza Editorial Sa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420645629
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«Los turbantes de Venecia» is the novel by Nedim Gürsel, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
The painter and art historian Kâmil Uzman travels through Venice seeking traces of the Ottoman presence in the Bellini family's painting. His passion for these works intersects with an intense love for a young librarian and with memories of Istanbul, in a plot that weaves together past and present, East and West.
Translated from Turkish by Rafael Carpintero, this 2004 edition belongs to the Alianza Literaria collection; its original title is «Resimli Dünya».
For readers interested in Venice, Renaissance painting, and the relations between East and West.
Nedim Gürsel is a Turkish writer. In the late 1960s, he published novellas and essays in Turkish magazines. After graduating from Galatasaray High School in 1970, he studied at the Sorbonne. In 1974, he graduated from the Sorbonne's Department of Modern French Literature. In 1979, he received his doctorate in comparative literature after completing his dissertation on Louis Aragon and Nazim Hikmet. He returned to Turkey, but the unrest there in 1980 persuaded him to go back to France.
