And, of course, to return to where you started, simply click on the Home link at the top of this page.The Language Nobody Speaks is about our affections and our physical selves, about how we regard our bodies, what they lead us to do, what we do with them. As the young woman, Erin, bitterly says, "Our bodies are another language, but no one speaks it. People just shout at each other and make noise and call it making love." When the story begins, our attention focuses on the young lovers, Erin and Bart; their hunger for each other is simple and dramatic and full of hope. But as Erin and Bart find themselves -- even against their will -- getting more and more deeply involved with the older married couple, the nature of erotic life begins to reveal itself as far richer and darker than they had imagined. The older pair, Lida and Hollis Lord, have an erotic life too, of course, but theirs is steeped and stained with biography and with history, with all those things that an older married couple take with them wherever they go, even to bed.
Its willingness to take a clear look at sexual passion set against personal history and public events puts The Language Nobody Speaks in a league with writers such as Milan Kundera. Indeed, this work is one of the very few erotic novels published in Muslim Turkey, a tribute to its intellectual seriousness. It is, as Andre Codrescu said, a small masterpiece of the kind that if this were France, everybody would be buying. In the view of the author, our erotic lives are too resonant and complex a subject to be left to pornographers and moralists.