FINALIST FOR 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 Özlü’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 Özlü’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 Aysegül Savas. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781945492693 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Transit Books Publication Date: 05-02-2023 Pages: 160 Product Dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)About the Author Tezer Özlü was born in 1943 in Turkey and lived in Paris, Ankara, Istanbul, Berlin, and Zurich where she died in 1986. Cold Nights of Childhood is her first novel to be translated into English. Maureen Freely is a writer, translator and Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies and a member of English PEN. She is the author of six novels, three works of non-fiction and is the translator of five books by the Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.
As wedding season approaches - and with the recent legalisation of same-sex marriage in New Zealand - our friends at Tourism New Zealand have compiled a guide to some of the most romantic Honeymoon destinations.
What is an ARC book? If you've heard the term ARC used in the reading world, here's what it means and how to get ARCs for yourself!
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The first stage is disbelief.
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"...and then the tailor cut the little boy's thumbs off. Good night."
Release Date: September 7 She’s my lifeline, my rock… When I was billeted with the Bukowskis, I made a mistake. I didn’t lock Gracie Agnieska Bukowski down. Instead, like a 16-year-old idiot, I became best friends with her brother, Kow, and now, the family considers me one of their own. Unt
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Do you ever read a new book and wonder "Why isn’t everybody talking about this novel (or memoir, or short story collection, or thriller, etc.)?" Sure, the book might have great blurbs, a fair number of favorable reviews, and the devotion of more…
Don't you love a good literary buzz-word? The one that most recently caught my attention is auto-fiction...
Photographer Benedict J Fernandez describes photographing the tumultuous years of protest movements in America in the Sixties
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Remember when hitting up your school's book fair was the most exciting event of the year? As every former child bookworm knows, there was nothing better than rushing into your school's library and seeing all of the books, just waiting for you to…
President Barack Obama shared his summer reading list on Facebook over the weekend, reminding us that he's still eager to learn as much about the world as possible after leaving office—and ready to share that knowledge with others
Figuring out just where to start Terry Pratchett's sprawling, character-dense Discworld series can be a little daunting. Fortunately this chart, lets you figure out just how to follow your favorite storylines and characters as they move from book to book.
She is widely believed to be the first known people to undergo sexual reassignment surgery.
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All was well.
A new cartoon by Grant Snider / Incidental Comics. More to check out: [ef-archive number=5 tag=”cartoons”]
Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish...everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage—in the politest possible ways, of course. Everything in the school is both decorative and deadly, including the students and teachers. Mademoiselle Geraldine's Academy has an on again off again relationship with a boys school
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Even though Attachments is officially an "adult" novel, I have no doubt it would appeal to YA fans, too - especially the ones that are into this '90s nostalgia kick all the Gen Z kids seem to be on right now.
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So the idea of Catherine Morland’s Reading List came mostly from the fact that I am a huge Gothic fiction/mystery fan. Before I met Jane Austen I devoured all these books that I know, if Cath…
Interestingly, 2018 turned out to be a very strong year for folktales, fairy tales, and religious stories. Why? Well, look closely and you'll see that this is nothing so much as a gathering of small publishers. It's like I always say. The more the big guys consolidate, the more cracks and fissures remain for the little folks to sneak through. Here then are the titles published in 2018 that really stood out and shone:
We have too much respect for the printed word, too little awareness of the power words hold over us. We allow worlds to be conjured up for us with very little concern for the implications. We overlook glaring incongruities. Learning to read with pens in our hands would bring huge benefits.
