Uncle Oswald

Back Cover Text (From the Promotional Bulletin)

Welcome to the kingdom of the extraordinary!

Spy, fighter pilot, chocolate historian and an inventor who made medical discoveries. Roald Dahl is a writer as colorful as the books he wrote. Known for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and other children's books, the stories Dahl tells adults are equally magical.

When he was only seventeen, the clever Oswald went to Africa without telling anyone and collected burning moth powder, which had an aphrodisiac effect. With his knowledge of chemistry, he would turn it into medicine and sell it to ministers, ambassadors and all kinds of gentlemen in the cheerful Paris of 1913, and thus begin to earn hundreds of thousands. But Oswald's eyes were on the millions. With the help of burning beetle powder, he sets up a spectacular ruse to steal the “treasures” of kings, artists, and male geniuses: a ruse that will allow him to offer a unique promise to women in the future.

In this humorous novel aimed at adults, Dahl mischievously salutes the great names of the 20th century. He presents Proust, Einstein, Freud, Puccini, Renoir and others as characters to his readers. Published with Ülker İnce’s devoted translation, Uncle Oswald is an entertaining journey into a period that began with a great war and continued with cultural and technological developments.

Dough Type : 2. Hamur

Number of Pages: 264

Year of First Printing: 2018

Number of Prints: 1st Edition