Paperback. The New York Times calls Turkish writer Asli Erdogan one of the "11 Powerful Women We Met Around the World in 2017""Asl Erdoan is an exceptionally perceptive and sensitive writer who always produces perfect literary texts."--Orhan Pamuk"One volume of short stories, The Stone Building and Other Places has become a bestseller in Turkey."-The New York Times"Beautifully written and honestly told, as tender as the tulip gardens of Istanbul and as brave as the human heart."--Elif Safak, author of The Forty Rules of LoveThree interconnected stories feature women whose lives have been interrupted by forces beyond their control. Exile, serious illness, or the imprisonment of one's beloved are each met with versions of strength and daring, while there is no undoing what fate has wrought. These atmospheric, introspective tales culminate in an experimental, multi-voiced novella, whose "stone building" is a metaphor for the various oppressive institutions-prisons, police headquarters, hospitals, and psychiatric asylums-that dominate the lives of all of these characters. Here is a literary distillation of the alienation, helplessness, and controlled fury of exile and incarceration-both physical and mental-presented in a series of moving, allegorical portraits of lives ensnared by the structures of power.Asl Erdoan (Istanbul, 1967) was arrested and imprisoned by the Turkish government in a sweeping roundup of dissident voices after the failed coup attempt of July 2016. The subject of both PEN International and PEN America advocacy campaigns, she has published novels, collections of short stories and poetic prose, and selections from her political essays. As a journalist, she has covered controversial topics such as state violence, discrimination, and human rights, for which she has been persecuted in a variety of ways.More praise for The Stone Building and Other Places:"The Stone Building by Asli Erdogan appears at first glance to be a collection of three short stories and a novella. In fact it is a literary text with a single unifying and sad theme: confinement. Erdogan is a most original and courageous literary voice, and The Stone Building bears on what is going on in present day Turkey."--Daniel Beaumont, author of Preachin' the Blues: The Life and Music of Son House"It is very difficult, and often impossible, to bring the music of Turkish into English. It is all the more difficult when the author-under-translation writes subtle and sinuous prose that stretches the conventions of literary Turkish to its limits. So, what a pleasure it is to see Sevinc Turkkan achieving the almost impossible. Not only does she do justice to Asli Erdogan's prose. She makes it sing."--Maureen Freely, translator"Erdogan's real strength as a writer in The Stone Building and Other Places is her reconciliatory relationship with psychological struggle. . . . [she] shows particular sensitivity to women in her stories and weaves their stories with what she reveals to be her most identifiable literary subject, the wounded human being."--Iclal Vanwesenbeeck, World Literature Today"Erdogan, a journalist and human-rights activist, was arrested and detained in Turkey for four months after the failed coup attempt of July 2016. The stories in this collection, which won Turkey's Sait Faik Short Story Award, revolve around women facing isolation, exile and imprisonment. In The Morning Visitor, a man visits a woman in a boardinghouse for migrants in a northern city; his presence reminds her, 'That dark cell, it follows me wherever I go.' Wooden Birds centres on Filiz, an asthmatic political refugee who is 'extremely gloomy, withdrawn, Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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T�tulo: The Stone Building and Other Places (Paperback)
Editor: City Lights Books, Oregon
Fecha de publicaci�n: 2018
Idioma: Ingl�s
ISBN 10: 0872867501
ISBN 13: 9780872867505
Encuadernaci�n: Paperback
Estado: new

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"Aslı Erdoğan is an exceptionally perceptive and sensitive writer who always produces perfect literary texts."—Orhan Pamuk

"One volume of short stories, The Stone Building and Other Places has become a bestseller in Turkey."—The New York Times

"Beautifully written and honestly told, as tender as the tulip gardens of Istanbul and as brave as the human heart."—Elif Safak, author of The Forty Rules of Love

Three interconnected stories feature women whose lives have been interrupted by forces beyond their control. Exile, serious illness, or the imprisonment of one''s beloved are each met with versions of strength and daring, while there is no undoing what fate has wrought. These atmospheric, introspective tales culminate in an experimental, multi-voiced novella, whose "stone building" is a metaphor for the various oppressive institutions—prisons, police headquarters, hospitals, and psychiatric asylums—that dominate the lives of all of these characters. Here is a literary distillation of the alienation, helplessness, and controlled fury of exile and incarceration—both physical and mental—presented in a series of moving, allegorical portraits of lives ensnared by the structures of power.

Aslı Erdoğan (Istanbul, 1967) was arrested and imprisoned by the Turkish government in a sweeping roundup of dissident voices after the failed coup attempt of July 2016. The subject of both PEN International and PEN America advocacy campaigns, she has published novels, collections of short stories and poetic prose, and selections from her political essays. As a journalist, she has covered controversial topics such as state violence, discrimination, and human rights, for which she has been persecuted in a variety of ways.

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Asli Erdogan (Istanbul, 1967) is is a renowned, prize-winning author, journalist and human rights activist whose fiction has been translated into many languages. She has published novels, collections of short stories and poetic prose, and selections from her political essays. As a journalist, she has covered controversial topics such as state violence, discrimination, and human rights, for which she has been persecuted in a variety of ways.

Erdogan was imprisoned for four months by the Turkish government in a sweeping roundup of dissident voices after the failed coup attempt of July 2016. The subject of both PEN International and PEN America advocacy campaigns, she was released from prison in late December 2016.

This is her second novel to be translated into English.

Sevinc Trkkan was born in Bulgaria and grew up in Istanbul,Turkey where she attended Boazici University earning a B.A. in Western Languages and Literatures. She completed a Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois-Urbana. Currently, she teaches modern Turkish literature and intellectual history at the University of Rochester. She specializes in modern Turkish literature and culture, translation studies, and cross-cultural studies with research interests in multilingualism, Turkish-German & Turkish-American literary relations, postcolonial studies, and world literature. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Trkisch-deutsche Studien Jahrbuch, Translation and Literature, Teaching Translation (Ed. Lawrence Venuti, Routledge), Critical Essays on Orhan Pamuk (Ibidem), Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk (Routledge), Post-1960 Novelists in Turkey, Making Connections, International Journal of the Humanities, and elsewhere. Her translations from Turkish and German appeared in Best European Fiction (Ed. Aleksandar Hemon, Dalkey Archive Press) and in K1N: Journal of Literary Translation. She is on the publications editorial board of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the co-editor (with David Damrosch) of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Orhan Pamuk (MLA), and she is at work on a book manuscript titled Translation Criticism and the Construction of World Literature.

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