Nicholas Bredie is a writer who lived and worked in Istanbul, Turkey from 2010 to 2013. Currently he is a University Fellow at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Nora Lange, and their dog. Not Constantinople is his first novel.
In spare, understated prose, our author captures the privileged
aimlessness and corrupted romanticism of the contemporary white
American expatriate. Bredie is a sly and unsparing writer for the
post-Hemingway set, revealing a world of travel that is stripped of
illusions and glamour.
-Viet Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer
Utterly charming. Nick Bredie's debut novel is by turns whimsical
and deeply affecting, managing to illuminate both the displaced
couple at the heart of it and the city that maddens and liberates
them.
- T.C. Boyle, author of The Women and When the Killing's Done
"Incredibly smart and funny in that way that pleasingly sneaks up
on a person, in line after line after line. An enormously confident
and layered debut."
--Aimee Bender, author of New York Times Notable Book The Color
Master "Bredie has crafted an expatriate story for our time, a
modern-day reimagining of the listlessness that for centuries has
driven so many Westerners to the East. This novel is a paean to the
city at its heart and the couple whose adventures run through its
pages."
--Elliot Ackerman, Dark at the Crossing "The ugly American gets a
slacker reboot in this sometimes funny, sometimes mercilessly sharp
novel. Vividly written, Not Constantinople is all about the ways
its lead character's supposed self-awareness doesn't keep him from
unraveling. It tells us much about our privileged insularity, our
Orientalism, our posed romanticism, and our drive for
destruction."
--Brian Evenson, A Collapse of Horses
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