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Fiction. History.
Other ways of seeing.
Novels, pamphlets and historical writing in English, from the house that publishes ddl kitap and Zıvana.
E-books and PDFs download straight after payment. Paperbacks are printed on demand near the reader and reach bookshops through the Ingram network.
The list
New & forthcoming
The Pallid Son
Adnan Barutçu
Death By Any Other Name
Adnan Barutçu
A Cousin from Cleveland
Adnan Barutçu
The Purser
Adnan Barutçu
The Wednesday Book
Adnan Barutçu
The Halbrook Business
Adnan Barutçu
The Long Dark Tunnel
Adnan Barutçu
The Autarkeia Paradox
Levent Yılmaz
The shelf
Imprints
Five lists in English. Pick a spine.
Pamphlets · No. 01 · 1 DECEMBER 2026
The Autarkeia Paradox
An Essay on Pluribus · Levent Yılmaz
Why do we fear the person who resembles us more than the stranger?
Reading Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus through Epicurus, the Desert Fathers, the Stoics and Ibn Tufayl — and then through Lévi-Strauss, Mauss, Sahlins and Rawls — this essay argues that the ancient dream of autarkeia, self-sufficiency, breaks not against difference but against sameness. Koumba’s garden, Manousos’s cell, the Others’ cosmopolis: three programmes of completeness, three collapses. What remains is Carol Sturka’s impossible position, and an atomic bomb in a front garden as the last counter-gift.
Fiction · Seven novels
The Dixon Hill Ledgers
Seven detective novels by Adnan Barutçu, each a ledger opened on a single case.
The Long Dark Tunnel
Adnan Barutçu
The Halbrook Business
Adnan Barutçu
The Wednesday Book
Adnan Barutçu
The Purser
Adnan Barutçu
A Cousin from Cleveland
Adnan Barutçu
Death By Any Other Name
Adnan Barutçu
The Pallid Son
Adnan Barutçu
Weekly letter
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Every Friday: what is out, what is coming, and two pages from a book. Short enough to read with a coffee.
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This week
The Dixon Hill Ledgers — the first two novels, The Long Dark Tunnel and The Halbrook Business.
Pluribus — pamphlet No. 01, on self-sufficiency and the almost-identical.
Two pages
Slowly, slowly you will climb these stairs,
a heap of sun-coloured leaves about your hem,
Ahmet Haşim, "Merdiven", Piyale (1926) · Zıvana, Sayı I · Güz 2026