18 Books to Pick Up in January 2014
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The Time Regulation Institute
By Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
432 pages;
Penguin Classics
Translated into English for the first time by a major U.S. publisher, this 1954 absurdist Turkish classic probes the collision of tradition and modernity through the story of a man who helps create an organization charged with changing all the country's clocks to Western time.
— Abbe Wright
Published 12/19/2013
