Syracuse University Press

'Becoming Turkish: Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey, 1923-1945' by Hale Yılmaz (Syracuse University Press, 328 pages, $39)

'National Elections in Turkey: People, Politics, and the Party System' by F. Michael Wuthrich (Syracuse University Press, 341 pages, $49)

'32' by Sahar Mandour, translated from the Arabic by Nicole Fares (Syracuse University Press, 141 pages, $19)

Toward the end of this slim novel, the anonymous protagonist tells her Beiruti friends about the book she has been writing: