Waiting for the Fear by Oğuz Atay Historical Fiction Publisher: Persephone Books

Publisher: Persephone Books

and as a lover—and to ask herself whether

East of Eden has remained vitally present in American culture for over half a century

passionately imagined

John Collan’s greatest anxiety is how to circumvent the village’s devilish goat on his way to collect water

Waiting for the Fear by Oğuz Atay Historical Fiction Publisher: Persephone BooksShort stories about people on the margins, from story peddlers to beggars, by one of Turkey's most innovative fiction writers, now in a new English translation. A giant of modern Turkish literature, Ouz Atay remains largely untranslated into English. First published in 1975, Waiting for the Fear is Atay's only collection of short stories, praised by the Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk for having transformed the art of short fiction. Atay's stories are