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Read “Bedside Tales of Sultan” in Google Books

Limited preview of “Bedside Tales of Sultan” is available in Google Books

Interview with Ankara Library

The interview with Ankara Library is available in Bizim Anadolu Newspaper

Bedside Tales of Sultan is now available in Ebook format

Bedside Tales of Sultan is now available in Ebook format at Smashwords
Available Ebook reading formats:
Kindle (.mobi)
Epub (open industry format, good for Stanza reader, others)
PDF (good for highly formatted books, or for home printing)
RTF
LRF (for Sony Reader)
Palm Doc (PDB) (for Palm reading devices)
Plain Text

Bedside Tales of Sultan is available at Book City

“Bedside Tales of Sultan” is now available for purchase at Toronto local book store “Book City” Annex location on 501 Bloor Street West.
Book City

Garden of Saadet

A young gardener possesses the magic spell of gardening and he is known as the creator of pleasure gardens. His fame reaches the palace and Sultan orders him to build the most beautiful and charming garden that one can ever see. Sultan says “Let your garden become the highlight of my sultanate. Let your name be written in golden letters in the great book of Shehname.” Gardener builds an alluring garden which becomes the highlight of the city. Though his sadness doesn’t miss the attention of Sultan and Sultan learns that gardener is lovesick. Sultan gathers his best men in search for the beauty who stole the Gardener’s heart. Following an eventful journey, they finally locate her. But it is only after Gardener plants the seed of lust which yields a different type of fruit every day, that he wins her heart.
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Whitemagic

A wealthy Merchant is fooled by the tricks of a sorcerer and loses every penny he has in gambling. Last but not least he gambles for the life of his son, Tamer, and offers him as a slave to Sorcerer to pay his debts. Merchant soon dies in agony. Following the death of his father, Tamer pursues a miserable life serving Sorcerer until he comes across Sorcerer’s daughter, Seher. The two youngsters fall in love right away. Seher asks her father’s permission to marry Tamer. Sorcerer says “If he wants his freedom, he has to earn it. I will ask him to fulfill my three wishes. Upon completing them successfully, he will be set free and deserves to be the husband of my daughter. But if he fails, I will kill him.” Tamer puts his life in danger to fight against the black magic of Sorcerer. First he finds the lost ring of Sorcerer’s father in the open sea, then brings order to Sorcerer’s food shelter by separating grains from each other which were purposefully mixed by Sorcerer, and manages to tame a wild stallion with the help of Seher.
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Altinbas – The Golden Hair

A poor farmer couple has a child after a long wait of many years. She has beautiful, curly golden hair and people starts calling her “Golden Hair”. When Golden Hair reaches the age of eight, the farmer couple discovers that her hair is indeed made of pure gold and she is a wonder kid. Dervish Baba, who is known to be the source of wisdom and enlightenment in the village, warns them saying “You should not cut her hair to trade for money; it will never grow again.” But his words aren’t enough to prevent the greedy and selfish nature of the father. He puts his family and Golden Hair’s life in danger.
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“Bedside Tales of Sultan” unfolds its sails to be the next “Arabian Nights”

Kybele Art, the art division of Kybele Films, a Toronto-based film and video production company publishes “Bedside Tales of Sultan”, a fairytale book by Murat Guvenc. The book unfolds through the story of a young Sultan who develops a sleeping disorder and finds salvation listening to fairy tales in order to ease his loneliness and boredom. Along the lines of the Arabian Nights, readers listen to a different story every night meeting with people from the royal court – sultans, viziers, judges and people who possess magical powers. The book is comprised of fifteen stories.

Author Murat Guvenc says “I’m inspired to write this book because I see fairy tales as a connection point between various cultures. Although we were all born and grew up in different lands, infused with different ideals and express our thoughts and beliefs in different languages, we still have so many commonalities, sharing the same history, using the same earthly resources and inheriting the same collective unconscious. I believe fairy tales are the foundation of human social and psychological evolution and a great example to demonstrate how a myth cultivated many years ago in some part of the world can still be embraced with the same joy and interest in another part.” According to Murat every story in Bedside Tales of Sultan is different but yet they all have one thing in common; they are bedside tales, life lessons that invigorate our imagination and entertain us.

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