The Spring 2013 issue of the quarterly literary journal Slightly Foxed features an article in which Cornucopia contributor Ateş Orga remembers how his father İrfan's novel A Portrait of a Turkish Family came to be written.
'An autobiography of tears and goodbyes, dedicated to my mother, it reached fruition on a Hermes portable typewriter in a small fourth-floor Bayswater tenement room lit by a naked 40-watt bulb and permeated by the aroma of cheap cigarettes, stale perfume, and Mediterranean beans simmering away slowly somewhere in the basement.'
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