THE CALLIGRAPHER'S NIGHT Type:Hardcover by Yasmine Ghata

by Yasmine Ghata

Mrs Lirriper devotes her energies to attending to the needs of her assorted lodgers

His responses to the architecture of Italy and Classical Greece remain extraordinarily evocative

But when a newborn child is abandoned to her care

THE CALLIGRAPHER'S NIGHT Type:Hardcover by Yasmine Ghataby Yasmine Ghata Translated by Andrew Brown It's 1923, and the young Rikkat is being brought up in the belief that her entire life will be the devoted to the art of calligraphy. That same year, Ataturk's republic breaks away from the venerable Islamic tradition and progressively abolishes the Arabic language and scripts in favour of a modified version of the Latin alphabet. Once the sacred ministers of Allah and Sultans, calligraphers are now being