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The Iliad
Homer · Retold by Tay Sagon
Homer's war epic in direct, resonant prose. A book of wrath, honour, grief, and the terrible cost of glory.
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The Odyssey
Homer · Retold by Tay Sagon
A sea-borne epic of exile, cunning, endurance, and the difficult art of returning home.
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Layla and Majnun
Fuzuli · Rendered into English by Tay Sagon
An English verse rendering of a classic of love and spiritual longing, where desire becomes devotion and language becomes a form of survival.
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Shahmaran
A traditional Anatolian legend · Retold by Tay Sagon
The serpent queen's kingdom beneath the earth, and the human betrayal that carries its knowledge into the world above.
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A Forbidden Love
Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil · Rendered into English by Emma Celine Veyre
A psychological novel of marriage, desire, class, and reputation in late Ottoman Istanbul. The closer its characters come to what they want, the less room they have to survive it.
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