(Saqi Books, $15, 160 pages)
When Nazım Hikmet was transferred to Bursa Prison in the winter of 1940, his reputation went before him. He wasn’t yet known by the inmates as Turkey’s greatest 20th century poet, but he was already a legend, the kind of man loved even by his enemies. On seeing him arrive with his few modest belongings, the future novelist Orhan Kemal, who was mid-way through his own five-year jail term on similar charges of communist sedition, marvels that the great man “could have a mattress, a suitcase, a basket ...
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