Long Distance

‘Don’t be deceived by Savas’s cool, matter-of-fact tone – beneath it lie layers of wisdom, delicacy and subtlety’ Guardian ‘Singular, delightful… The melancholy of these narrators, though tangible, treads only lightly on the text – an effect achieved through the spareness of Savas’s prose style’ TLS ‘Rome, Marseille, Istanbul, Paris and small-town Russia are the backdrops for these tender stories’ – Daily Mail ‘Like little slices of distilled humanity, these stories capture life at its largest and its smallest. Exquisitely emotional, millimetre precise, and with a singular Savas-specific atmosphere that is hard to describe or pinpoint, but unmistakably there from the first page. With LONG DISTANCE, Savas has cemented herself as one of my favourite contemporary writers.’ Jenny Mustard, author of WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE and OKAY DAYS ‘An exceptionally elegant, intelligent, and original writer’ Sigrid Nunez ‘The rigor of Didion and the tenderness of Sebald’ Catherine Lacey ‘One of my favourite writers’ Katie Kitamura

Aysegül Savas is the author of the novels Walking on the Ceiling The Anthropologists White on White and Walking on the Ceiling; the story collection Long Distance; and the nonfiction book The Wilderness. Her work has been translated into seven languages and her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker. She lives in Paris.

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