Waiting for the Fear by Oğuz Atay NYRB Devotees of modernist literature will

Devotees of modernist literature will be grateful for Atay’s hypnotic and intense writing

that is ultimately what makes the stories of Portalmania so enjoyable

” —Vogue

leaves an indelible impression

and in their close but complex relationships with one another made such greatness possible

Waiting for the Fear by Oğuz Atay NYRB Devotees of modernist literature willShort stories about people on the margins, from story peddlers to beggars, by one of Turkey's most innovative fiction writers, now in a new English translation. A giant of modern Turkish literature, Ouz Atay remains largely untranslated into English. First published in 1975, Waiting for the Fear is Atay's only collection of short stories, praised by the Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk for having transformed the art of short fiction. Atay's stories are