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Araba Sevdası - Cloth-bound Book Description Araba Sevdası, known as the "first realist" novel in Turkish Literature, is among the must-read books of the literary world with both its content and literary style. Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem is an intellectual who is able to look critically at the society he lives in, a literary acrobat who can play with words, and a writer with a subtle sense of humor and extraordinary powers of observation. While reading Araba Sevdası, you will personally witness these features of the master writer and go on a pleasant journey through the multi-layered structure of the novel. Araba Sevdası, in which Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem describes Western imitation or false Westernization and was first published in Servet-i Fünun magazine, was prepared for publication by Ceyda Yüksel and was edited by Tülay Gençtürk Demircioğlu, a faculty member from Boğaziçi University Turkish Language and Literature Department. The work has been translated with the aim of being as appropriate as possible to the language and spirit of the period in which it was written, and to be understandable for today's readers. (From the Promotional Bulletin)