Cold Nights of Childhood
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Sell my copyAuthor: Tezer "Ozl"u
Title: Cold Nights of Childhood
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 160
Release Date: 2023-05-02
Details: WINNER OF THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE TRANSLATION PRIZE
"A profoundly moving account of desperation, exhilaration, and endurance."-Kirkus Reviews
The Bell JarGood Morning, Midnight, by one of Turkey's most beloved writers.
The narrator of Tezer "Ozl"u's novel is between lovers. She is in and out of psychiatric wards, where she is forced to undergo electroshock treatments. She is between Berlin and Paris. She returns to Istanbul, in search of freedom, happiness, and new love.
Set across the rambling orchards of a childhood in the Turkish provinces and the smoke-filled cafes of European capitals, Cold Nights of Childhood offers a sensual, unflinching portrayal of a woman's sexual encounters and psychological struggle, staging a clash between unbridled feminine desire and repressive, patriarchal society.Originally published in 1980, six years before her death at 43, Cold Nights of Childhood cemented Tezer "Ozl"u's status as one of Turkey's most beloved writers. A classic that deserves to stand alongside The Bell Jar and Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight, Cold Nights of Childhood is a powerfully vivid, disorienting, and bittersweet novel about the determined embrace of life in all its complexity and confusion, translated into English here for the first time by Maureen Freely, with an introduction by Ayseg"ul Savas.
EAN: 9781945492693
Package Dimensions: Height: 8 Inches, Length: 5.25 Inches, Weight: 0.35 Pounds, Width: 0.4 Inches
Languages: en
