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18 Books to Pick Up in January 2014

The Time Regulation Institute

By Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages: 432
Tags: Fiction

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

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