From Ö zgü r Uyanik, novelist and film director, comes a debut collection of audacious, darkly wry and compassionate short stories. Driven by universal themes of desire, mortality, loss and yearning, each story evokes both the melancholy and the hope inherent in all stages of life, from childhood through to maturity.Artists, writers, lovers, killers: all types of men walk these pages along the streets of the European cities of Cardiff, Istanbul, London, Paris, Odessa and Lisbon. All seeking to find a way to belong in the world.