Istanbul Gathering

About the Book

Istanbul Gathering is a novel of lives caught up in a web of shared personal memories and in the complex historical weave that has formed, over the centuries, the variegated cultual life of this ancient town. The narration, built on a non-linear pattern of echoings over space and time, follows the principal characters as they wend their various ways through the city to a celebratory reunion in the heart of the old European quarter of Beyolu.

About the Author

Roddy O’Connor has spent nine years in Istanbul, three in the sixties and six in the nineties, teaching English and French in Turkish secondary schools. He has also spent a dozen years in France and two in Morocco. During the seventies and early eighties, he taught nineteenth century French Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, before returning overseas. He is the author of critical studies of Balzac and Flaubert. Istanbul Gathering is his first novel.