Altun, Selcuk

Selçuk Altun is a novelist whose mysteries draw on music, painting, rare books, family secrets, and the layered geography of Istanbul. Farewell Fountain Street follows memory and investigation through a neighborhood marked by departure and return. Songs My Mother Never Taught Me brings an assassin and a privileged young man into the same puzzle, using music and concealed family history to connect their lives. The Sultan of Byzantium turns an unexpected claim of imperial descent into an intellectual chase through documents and places. Many and Many A Year Ago places literary echoes, especially Edgar Allan Poe, inside a story of love, disappearance, and inquiry. Songs My Mother Never Taught Me best displays Altun's mixture of suspense and cultural reference; The Sultan of Byzantium expands the historical game.