Kenan Orhan recommends
Stone and Shadow (2023)
Burhan Sönmez
"Following the enchanting and heartbreaking life of a gravestone cutter, Sonmez masterfully deploys the unique historical condition of modern Turkey to plumb the depths of identity and memory, asking what treasures are lost and what political conveniences are gained by the act of collective forgetting. With this book, he has eroded the boundaries of epochs, lands, languages, and even bodies, collapsing time into a beguiling and provocative coil. These freighted characters are a resounding belief in a hopeful if unnamable infinity."
Anthologies containing stories by Kenan Orhan
