I Will Never See the World Again - Couverture souple

Altan, Ahmet

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1783785152 ISBN 13 : 9781783785155

Editeur : Granta Books, 2019

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'A remarkable memoir by a remarkable writer ... it is something special to visit Ahmet Altan in his prison, and to leave with an unexpected feeling of elation, motivated by the sheer, towering greatness of the human spirit'--Philippe Sands, author of East West Street

'A deeply moving memoir, which resounds loudly with the sheer pleasure of writing. We owe Ahmet Altan a tremendous debt for the strength he has shown in sharing his story with us. Read this book, share it, and welcome Ahmet into your home'--Jon McGregor

'Ahmet Atlan's memoir is a message in a bottle, a pearl in a bottle, smuggled out to us from Erdogan's sea of darkness. I Will Never See The World Again is a startling, heartbreaking testament to the author's honesty and resilience, a love letter to his calling, an eye-witness statement from the hell of denunciations and mass arrests that Turkey has become... Read this - it will explain why you ever read anything, why anyone ever writes'AL Kennedy, author of Serious Sweet

'Remember the name Ahmet Altan! Add him to the great voices writing from prison across the centuries - Boethius, Cervantes, Gramsci, Soyinka, Solzhenitsyn - and be moved to tears and indignation by his story' -- --Ariel Dorfman, author of Death and the Maiden

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await the decision that will determine my future, just as he awaited his. I am unaware of my destiny, which has perhaps already been decided, just as he was unaware of his. I suffer the pathetic torment of profound helplessness, just as he did. Like a cursed oracle, I foresaw my future years ago not knowing that it was my own. Confined in a cell four metres long, imprisoned on absurd, Kafkaesque charges, novelist Ahmet Altan is one of many writers persecuted by Recep Tayyip Erdogan's oppressive regime. In this extraordinary memoir, written from his prison cell, Altan reflects upon his sentence, on a life whittled down to a courtyard covered by bars, and on the hope and solace a writer's mind can provide, even in the darkest places.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Granta Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1783785152
• ISBN 13: 9781783785155
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224