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THE LAST APARTMENT IN ISTANBUL
By: Defne Suman
Apollo
September 2025
On Sale: September 16, 2025
Featuring: Pericles Drakos; Leyla
400 pages
ISBN: 1035902389
EAN: 9781035902385
Kindle: B0FD81L31Y
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Fiction Literary | Fantasy Urban
I was writing to her, so that she would know me not as this old person whose joints creaked when he rose from a chair, but as the real Pericles: the man who dreamt, deceived, envied, loved…
Pericles Drakos has lived in the exquisite Circle Building for all of his seventy-five years. From its lofty windows, he has seen his little corner of Istanbul shift and transform. But as the area has become increasingly gentrified, Pericles has retreated into its shadowy corners. And when the pandemic hits, his isolation deepens.
But when Leyla, a sparky and beautiful thirty-something moves in, Pericles is enthralled. And when he discovers Leyla is a writer, he decides to put his own pen to paper and record his own fraught history: that of a Greek man subjected to the politics of oppression and intimidation in twentieth-century Turkey.
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