The Last Apartment in Istanbul

Pericles Drakos has spent all seventy-five years of his life in Istanbul's Circle Building, watching the city change while retreating into solitude. When the pandemic deepens his isolation, the arrival of Leyla, a lively young writer, sparks a connection. Inspired by her, Pericles begins to record his own story: a moving account of life as a Greek man navigating discrimination, oppression and upheaval in twentieth-century Turkey.