Lady Life
$34.70
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
8 July 2024
Summary
A magnificent coming-of-age story about freedom and desire by the acclaimed author of I Will Never See the World Again. Winner of the Prix Femina Etranger.
Istanbul is changing, its society decomposing. When his father dies, Fazil learns that one’s entire world can change in an instant. Lost are the security and privileges of his family, replaced now by the precarity of poverty. And yet, despite this dramatic change in circumstance, Fazil pursues his desire to study literatur…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781800699106 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1800699107 |
| Author: | Ahmet Altan, Yasemin Çongar |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Mountain Leopard Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 8 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
‘A beautiful novel and a hymn to liberty’ – Marc Semo, Le Monde‘To read Altan’s novel is to observe, from a remove, the shifting moods of a young man undergoing a spiritual crisis. Lady Life’s unfussy prose reminded me of Herman Hesse’s Steppenwolf’ – Kaya Genç, Los Angeles Review of Books
About The Author
Ahmet Altan
Ahmet Altan is one of Turkey’s most important writers. In the purge following the failed coup in July 2016, Altan was sent to prison pending trial for giving ‘subliminal messages’ in support of the coup. In February 2018 he was sentenced to life in prison without parole for attempting to overthrow the government. 51 Nobel laureates signed an open letter to President Erdogan calling for Altan’s release.
Yasemin Congar is a writer and translator. Her translation of Ahmet Altan’s I Will Never See The World Again was long-listed for Baillie Gifford Prize in 2019.
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