The Nobel Prize for Literature Orhan Pamuk never tires of claiming the great influence that Paz has had on his writing and the specific and unavoidable weight of Tanpinar's masterpiece in Turkish literature in general. In Sixth Floor we are proud to offer the reader in Spanish the opportunity to finally know one of the props of Turkish letters of the twentieth century. Paz is a lyricist novel, in which the bittersweet destinies of the protagonists - M? Mtaz, Nuran, Suat and Ihsan - are continuously mixed with the immortal beauty and charm of Istanbul, to the point that the city becomes much More than the fascinating scene of their encounters and disagreements, their loves and desamores, and it imposes itself like the main personage, unforgettable, of these pages. With a dazzling language evoking the atmosphere, smells and colors of Istanbul - from the timeless spell of the Bosphorus to the streets of Galata - in a crucial period of modern Turkish history, Tanpinar builds the novel around the tensions that characterize The change from one time to another. From the heady descriptions of life under the Ottoman Empire, it transits into the birth of the Turkish Republic, which brings with it the tension between East and West, between tradition and modernity, a tension still present in this beautiful capital, a seductive crossroads in Which two continents converge and divide.