# Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse

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- Authors: [Philip Ó Ceallaigh](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-o-ceallaigh)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2006-11-10

## Description

A performance artist opens his chest and displays his beating heart on stage. A young man walks through the hills of south-west Romania, where the locals have peculiar ideas about gold. On the morning of a medical examination, a woman tries to coax her husband off the roof. A smuggler pays off an old debt to his sister and resigns himself to a life of honest toil in the mine-shafts of his home town. A mysterious rodent named Brigitte enters the lives of two old men. And, in the astonishing long story 'In the Neighbourhood', the inhabitants of a crumbling tower-block go about their business, unforgettably. The stories of Philip Ó Ceallaigh create a world that is utterly original and yet immediately recognizable - a world of ordinary people grappling with work and idleness, ambition and frustration, wildness and sobriety, love and lust and decay. Scabrously honest, screamingly funny and beautifully crafted, Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse is a brilliant debut from a writer who cannot be ignored by anyone who cares about the art of fiction.

## Editions

### Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-986-2
- Published: 2013-05-02
- Language: en_GB

### Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4102-902-3
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2006-11-10
- Language: en_GB