Huzur

Huzur (A Mind at Peace)

Is Huzur the story of a magnificent love in which a single day is lived as though it were a thousand years? Is it the story of the unease left behind by a great civilization that has long since vanished? Or, as it was described in the announcement of its 1948 serialization, is it “the story of the day the war began, told far from borders, political circles, and battlefields”?

All of these questions merge into one another within the novel. They become a single reality—at once distant from and close to each of them—an ambiguous inner world expressed through an exceptional symbolism of existence. Set within the memory of Istanbul and the rising and falling rhythm of music, Huzur ennobles both love and civilization through an elegant prose in which art and life flow side by side.

In truth, Huzur is the story of our inner selves.

Huzur is one of the crowning achievements of the Turkish novel.

Author: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

Series: Turkish Literature

Prepared by: İnci Enginün

Dimensions: 13.5 × 21 cm

Page Count: 380 pages

ISBN: 978-625-6839-47-2

First Published: 1949

45th Edition: February 2025