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The original title is "The Fall of the House of Winshaw or Which ...." - an allusion to E. A. Poe's famous story "The Fall of the House of Usher".
Kenize Murad, granddaughter of the Turkish Sultan Murad, was born in Paris and writes in French. She achieved world fame in the late 1980s with this novel.
The Perfect Island is written as a chronicle of a summer vacation. Family harmony comes to the fore in the challenges of unfamiliar surroundings, encounters with new people, and mutual conversations.
The plot of the book focuses on the lives of craftsmen and their workers in rural areas, exploring the themes of social injustice, poverty, the conflict between traditional values and modernization, and the challenges faced by people on the margins of s
Rainer Maria Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910), his only novel, is an introspective and poetic account of the inner turmoil of a young Danish nobleman, Malte Laurids Brigge, in Paris.
It is a deeply disturbing text, full of emotions and traumatic experiences of a collapsed, imploded urban individual crying out for the meaning of life.