Acclaimed author of The Anthropologists Aysegül Savä's acute and tender first collection
explores the distances we keep and those we try to close in the age of connectivity. A
researcher abroad in Rome eagerly awaits a visit from her long distance lover only to find he
is not the same man she remembers. An expat meets a childhood friend on a layover and is
dismayed by her unexpected contentment. A newly pregnant woman considers the taboo of sharing
the news too soon but can't resist when an opportunity comes to patch up a damaged friendship.
Long Distance showcases Savas's devastating talent for the short story. Her shrewd
encapsulations of contemporary life often centre on characters displaced more by choice than
circumstance characters both determined to install themselves in new lives and preoccupied
with the people they've left behind. 'Don't be deceived by Savä's cool matter-of-fact tone
- beneath it lie layers of wisdom delicacy and subtlety' Guardian 'Singular delightful... The
melancholy of these narrators though tangible treads only lightly on the text - an effect
achieved through the spareness of Savas's prose style' TLS 'Rome Marseille Istanbul Paris
and small-town Russia are the backdrops for these tender stories' Daily Mail 'An
exceptionally elegant intelligent and original writer' Sigrid Nunez 'The rigor of
Didion and the tenderness of Sebald' Catherine Lacey 'One of my favourite writers' Katie
Kitamura
