The Trojan War Museum: and Other Stories

Short-listed for the 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection

In Ayse Papatya Bucak’s dreamlike narratives, dead girls recount gas explosions and a chess-playing automaton falls in love. A student stops eating, and no one knows whether her act is personal or political. A Turkish wrestler, a hero in the East, is seen as a brute in the West. And in the masterful title story, the Greek g...