The Lost Word - Couverture souple

Baydar, Oya

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0720613477 ISBN 13 : 9780720613476

Editeur : Peter Owen Publishers, 2011

Synopsis

A mixture of thriller, love story, political and psycho-philosophical novel, 'The Lost Word' presents an introduction to the politically explosive situation that exists between the Kurds and the Turkish state.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

One of the most acclaimed and powerful novels of modern Turkey is set across Europe, but retains the Turkish-Kurdish conflict at its heart A mixture of thriller, love story, political, and psycho-philosophical novel, this is a sobering, coruscating introduction to the potentially explosive situation that exists between the Kurds and the Turkish state. A bestselling author suffering from writer's block witnesses the accidental shooting of a young Kurdish woman who loses the baby she is carrying. He becomes involved with her and the two families caught in the fallout of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, eventually finding a true understanding of the situation and rediscovering his own creativity with a new moral certainty, stripped of any ideology or prejudice. But there are many gripping perspectives to this vital and ultimately uplifting story from one of Turkey's most acclaimed writers, now translated into English for the first time.

Revue de presse :

'An inspired book.' --Liberté

From this captivating tale emerges an extraordinary beauty. --L'Humanité

The greatest novel of present-day Turkey. --Freitag

Oya Baydar's fine novel brings the Turkish conflict to the fore . . . In a compelling, polyphonic structure, the journeys of the protagonists are interspersed . . . That this welcome arrival in English of an important Turkish novelist coincides with a major resurgence in the Kurdish war makes it even more timely. --Maya Jaggi, Guardian

'Baydar's extraordinary book expolores, from both side, the nature of the armed conflict that continues in Turkey and eloquently demonstrates how violence can erupt wherever tyranny and fear coexist.' --Lucy Popescu, The Independent

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Peter Owen Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0720613477
• ISBN 13: 9780720613476
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272