Zin - Couverture souple

K., Nandakumar; Savithri, Haritha

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143461664 ISBN 13 : 9780143461661

Editeur : Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd, 2024

Synopsis

WITH A FOREWORD BY N.S. MADHAVAN

Seetha, an Indian national and a student at the University of Barcelona, arrives in Diyarbakir, Turkey, in search of her Kurdish lover Devran. Having just found out that she is pregnant, she is desperate to find Devran, who has mysteriously vanished.
Seetha discovers some disturbing truths upon her arrival. The state is trying to trap Devran and his family for alleged terrorist links. The region is in the midst of a harrowing conflagration, where state-sponsored killings, enforced disappearances, political vendettas and torture cells are the norm.
Seetha herself comes under surveillance of the Turkish security forces, who take her into custody and brutally torture her. In the scramble to rescue Sita from their clutches, many find themselves caught up in the conflict between the Kurds and the Turkish government.
Set against the 2015- 16 Turkish repression of the Kurdistan movement, Zî n is a novel in which an ordinary love story between people of two different nationalities and cultures is flung into an unexpected, extraordinary political and historical setting. The pacey and emotionally stirring novel throws light on how governments reduce minority communities to a lower status and use them as a tool to seize power-- a situation that's become all too familiar across the world.

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À propos de l?auteur

Haritha Savithri is a writer, freelance journalist, human rights activist and translator. She has translated Iskender Pala's Tulip of Istanbul, Samar Yazbek's The Crossing and Ahmet Umit's The Cry of a Swallow into Malayalam.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0143461664
• ISBN 13: 9780143461661
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible