by Nedim Gürsel · Alianza · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420648897
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«La novela del Conquistador» is the historical novel by Nedim Gürsel, published by Alianza Editorial in 2007 in hardback (400 pages, in Spanish).
Two narrative threads intertwine: on one hand, the Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453 and the figure of Mehmed II; on the other, a Turkish writer exiled in Paris who, in the turbulent Turkey of 1980, tries to write that novel and is dragged by the young Deniz into a delirium that merges with his work.
The work belongs to the Alianza Literaria collection and was originally published as «Boğazkesen: Fatih'in Romanı».
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and metafiction who want a double immersion in the past and present of Istanbul and Turkey.
Nedim Gürsel is a Turkish writer. In the late 1960s, he published novellas and essays in Turkish magazines. After graduating from Galatasaray High School in 1970, he studied at the Sorbonne. In 1974, he graduated from the Sorbonne's Department of Modern French Literature. In 1979, he received his doctorate in comparative literature after completing his dissertation on Louis Aragon and Nazim Hikmet. He returned to Turkey, but the unrest there in 1980 persuaded him to go back to France.
