Erol Guney's Cat

The book is named after the title of a poem by the famous Turkish poet Orhan Veli. It gave Erol Güney recognition and made his cat the most famous small feline in Turkish literature. This book offers us a fresh take on recent history from the point of view of an intellectual who has been labelled an Immigrant, a Translator, a Journalist and a Lover. It is neither a chronological biography nor a collection of daily recollections. It is a blending of yesterday and today, a succession of people, struggles, institutions and events taken from a cross-section of a life over a period of sixty years. We travel with Erol Güney from the Russian Revolution to the "Turkish Renaissance" and, after his exile to France, to contemporary Israel. "Erol Güney's Cat" is a unique and sincere story full of humanity. You will find it impossible to put down.