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B O O K S F R O M T U R K E Y
SON CESET - THE LAST CORPSE
Unionsverlag, Switzerland, 2008
360 pages, Novel
C E L İ L O K E R
Translated into German by Nevfel Cumart
ISBN: 9752931597
www.turkuvazkitap.com
Celil Oker was born in Kayseri, Talas, in 1952. After studying at Talas Amerikan
Junior Shool, he graduated from Tarsus American High School. Subsequently, he
moved to Istanbul and studied at Boğaziçi University. After graduating from the
English Language and Literature department, he worked as a translator, journalist
and encyclopedia writer. Currently he is working as a lecturer in the Communication
Faculty at Bilgi University.
WORKS: Kramponlu Ceset (Corpse With Cleats), Son Ceset (The Last Corpse), Rol
Çalan Ceset (The Corpse that Stole the Role), Çıplak Ceset (The Naked Corpse), Bin
Lotluk Ceset (The Thousand Lot Corpse)
Foreign Rights: Kramponlu Ceset/Corpse with Cleats (Kastaniotis Editions,
Greece), (Unionsverlag, Switzerland); Çıplak Ceset/ The Naked Corpse (Roca
Editorial de Libros, Spain, 2006), (Uitgeverij Elmar, The Netherlands, 2006), Bin
Lotluk Ceset (Kastaniotis Editions, Greece)
The main character of Celil Oker’s
novels, Detective Ünal, tries to get to the
bottom of mysteries which are closely
intertwined with politics, murder and
shady dealings… When events start to
unfold after the murder of one of his
clients -a woman who asks the detective
to take on an unpaid debt case- the
plot starts to thicken and the pace
becomes more frenetic. Readers find
themselves swept along in a complex,
but breathtaking adventure, made even
more compelling by the unexpected twist
at the end. The Last Corpse is the fifth in
the Celil Oker detective series, in which
he successfully recaptures the style of
the classic detective novel. The author’s
fluent prose and convincing dialogues
reveal subtle aspects of contemporary
life.