Ayfer Tunç

Turkish novelist and short-story writer Ayfer Tunç explores how family memory, social pressure and self-deception shape the stories people tell about themselves. The Highly Unreliable Account of the History of a Madhouse gathers a crowded institutional past through competing voices, making uncertainty part of the book's design. Aziz Bey Incident follows a proud musician whose longing and wounded vanity gradually isolate him from those around him. These books show two scales of Tunç's fiction: one builds a broad social archive, while the other concentrates emotional damage in a single life. Her narrators rarely offer a final, neutral truth; perspective changes the moral weight of each event. Aziz Bey Incident provides the sharper first encounter, whereas The Highly Unreliable Account of the History of a Madhouse reveals her gift for polyphonic structure.