What Remains

By Leylâ ErbilTranslated by Alev Ersan, Amy Spangler, and Mark WyersIntroduction by Ayten Tartici An experimental novel-in-verse from Leylâ Erbil, the first Turkish woman to ever be nominated for the Nobel Prize. Publication Date: October 7th, 2025 Paperback: 9781646054015 eBook: 9781646054022   Description An experimental novel-in-verse from Leylâ Erbil, the first Turkish woman to ever be nominated for the Nobel Prize. In this remarkable, multilayered narrative, Erbil pens an elegy to the Istanbul of eras past and all that’s been lost in its transformation. Through the eyes of a woman named Lahzen we witness the landscape shift from a vibrant multicultural hub where a young Jewish girl snaps her pencil in half to share it with her Turkish classmate to a city fractured by political violence. The sharp crack of that pencil becomes an echo in Lahzen’s life: a symbol of both rupture and communion, the sound of something shared and something lost. From the Byzantine Empire to the twenti