Dark Journey
Mr Irfan Orga

Almost half a century after the death of Irfan Orga, author of the highly acclaimed cult memoir Portrait of a Turkish Family, his son, Ates Orga, opened an old attaché case and found a coffee-stained typescript tied up with string.  Dark Journey springs from a sombre understanding of the ambivalence of human nature, a metaphor, perhaps, for the exiled Orga's Turkish republican homeland, a survivor born from the tattered remnants of an empire that had been brutalized, occupied and betrayed. 

Dark Journey is a disturbing, fast-paced story of a young Turkish woman's descent towards moral annihilation – one part Maupassant, one part One Thousand and One Nights and one part Oedipus and Jocasta.