Dying is Easier than Loving

"A deeply compelling and immersive narrative about love, desire, loneliness and landscape."—Elif Shafak (on book 1 of the series)"Altan uses a Tolstoyan combination of the epic and the intimate to explore questions of national identity and historical narrative."—

The Observer"Altan's descriptions of a stifling atmosphere of authoritarian repression in Istanbul in the early 1900s conjure up constant comparisons with today's Turkey."— Weiter