Hasan Ali Toptas is one of Turkey's leading writers. His novels have won the Cankaya Literature Prize, the Culture Ministry Prize, the Yunus Nadi Novel Prize, the Cevdet Kudret Literature Prize, the Orhan Kemal Novel Prize and the Turkish Writers' Union Great Novel Prize. His novels have been translated into Dutch, French, Finnish, Swedish, German and Korean, and Shadowless, first published in 1995, was adapted for film in 2008. Hasan Ali Toptas now lives in Ankara. Maureen Freely is a novelist and journalist who contributes to the Guardian and the Independent. She translated Orhan Pamuk's recent novels from Turkish into English. She grew up in Turkey and now lives in England. John Angliss won the inaugural British Council's Young Translators' Prize for prose in 2012. He lives in Ankara.
A poetic masterpiece of world literature ... An oriental Kafka, enriched with the literary achievements of Islamic mysticism * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung * PRAISE FOR RECKLESS: 'A wonderful and gripping story ... This is news and history made intimate. I am deeply grateful to Hasan Ali Toptas for having told me this story * Nadeem Aslam * Challenging, innovative, deeply humane … [He has] a wise and ageless economy reminiscent of J. M. Coetzee * Times Literary Supplement * An extraordinary tale ... A strange, troubling but compelling ride of a novel * Toronto Star * Toptas seems to me Orhan Pamuk’s equal ... He strikes me as just as gifted a writer * Sydney Morning Herald * An extraordinary writer * Hürriyet *