The City in Crimson Cloak
From an exceptionally sensitive and perceptive Turkish writer and human rights activist (Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature), the captivating story of a writer whose own autobiographical novel forces her to come to terms with the dichotomy of the city she once loved: Rio de Janeiro.Özgür is a young woman on fire: poor, hungry, and on the verge of a mental breakdown. She has only one weapon: her ability to write the city that has robbed her of everything, Rio de Janeiro. Through the reading of the bits and pieces of Özgür's unfinished eponymous novel, with its autobiographical protagonist named Ö, Özgür's story begins to emer…
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Weitere Autoren: Spangler, Amy (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-59376-692-4
- EAN: 9781593766924
- Produktnummer: 33613534
- Verlag: Catapult
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 964 KB
Über den Autor
One of Turkey's most challenging authors, Asli Erdogan has been a critical success both in Turkey and Europe. A former physicist who abandoned her scientific career for a literary one, Erdogan's first book, the novel The Shell Man was published in 1994. Erdogan's second novel, The City in Crimson Cloak, established her as a writer of formidable literary merit, gathering accolades abroad.From 1998 to 2000, Erdogan, a human rights activist and former Turkish representative of PEN's Writers in Prison Committee, wrote a column for the Turkish newspaper Radikal entitled The Others. Her articles were later collected and published as the book When a Journey Ends.
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