The Sound Of Fishsteps - Ane tarafından Afife Jale’ye akraba oluyorum. Babamın kökleri de Pirî Reis’in amcası Kemal Reis’e uzanır, dedim gururla. - Camile ve Kolomb gibi mi yani? dedi şaşırarak. - Hiç kimse bir başkasına benzemez! diye hırçınlaştım. - Afife Pirî! dedi hayranlıkla. - Afife Pirî! diye yineledim. - Denizlerin serüvenci oğluyla, sahne ışıklarının cesur, asi kızının torunusun, müthiş. olağanüstü. Anlamalıydım. Çoktan anlamalıydım. It is the end of the Twentieth Century. Eighty-eight people from around the world each receive a personaly adresed leter from the United Nations. The leter is an invitation informing these eighty-eight souls that they have ben selected for outstanding creativity and courage in their respective societies. Afife Piri, a young Turkish woman, is the narator who, along with the rest of the members of this selected group, seizes the oportunity to get entirely away from asembly-line mentality. She and her companions, many of whom are famous artists, writers and scientists, believe that they have finaly found a refuge from the monotony, authority and constant surveilance in their countries. "The Sound of Fishsteps features delicate interplays of sentimentality and cynicism, tragicomedy and farce, and introduces a modern amalgam of dreams and nightmares in the style of Borges and Barthelme. As it relates an unusual love story from the vantage point of emotional inteligence, the novel presents an example of burlesgue neosurealism and striking postmodernism. ".