Dark Journey

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Almost half a century after the death of Irfan Orga,author of the highly acclaimed cult memoir Portraitof a Turkish Family, his son, Ates Orga, opened an old attache case andfound a coffee-stained typescript tied up with string.DarkJourney springs from a sombre understanding of theambivalence of human nature, a metaphor, perhaps, for the exiled Orga's Turkishrepublican homeland, a survivor born from the tattered remnants of an empirethat had been brutalized, occupied and betrayed.

DarkJourney is a disturbing, fast-paced story of a young Turkishwoman's descent towards moral annihilation one part Maupassant, one part One Thousand and One Nights and one partOedipus and Jocasta.