Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale Slovenian Literature Series Set at a boardinghouse in

Set at a boardinghouse in rural New Jersey in the summer of 1939

mingling bold invention and a mastery of the colloquial

and from coping

novelistic infatuation

and time and art

Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale Slovenian Literature Series Set at a boardinghouse inIstanbul Was a Fairy Tale tells the stories of three generations of a Jewish family, from the 1920s to the 1980s. Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale tells the stories of three generations of a Jewish family, from the 1920s to the 1980s. Istanbul is their only home, and yet they live in a state of alienation, isolating themselves from the world around them. As witness, observer, and protagonist, the narratorat once inside and outside his storyrecords their many