Turkey
Atlantic, The, January, 2006 by Jeffrey Tayler
Top ten best sellers in Turkey, as of November 2005, according to the Publishers' Association of Turkey
1. Those Crazy Turks, by Turgut ÌÐzakman . A Micheneresque opus recounting the battle for the creation of the modern Turkish republic.
2. The Zahir, by Paulo Coelho . The popular Brazilian writer's multicontinental odyssey of loss, love, and the search for self.
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J. K. Rowling . The penultimate volume of … oh, you know.
4. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, by Robin Sharma . Wall Street meets On the Road , generously larded with New Age flapdoodle.
5. The Longest Night, by Ahmet Altan . A tale of ill-starred romance in the grandest tradition of Turkish tear-jerkers.
6. Amat, by Ihsan Oktay Anar . A swashbuckling epic transports readers back to a ...