Part one of the Anatolian Blues trilogy
Told with great affection for his characters, Selim Özdogan's trilogy traces out the life of Gül, a Turkish girl who grows up in 1950s Anatolia and then moves to Germany as a migrant worker. Book one details her initially idyllic childhood, ruptured by her mother's early death. Ever close to her loving father, Gül grows into a warm-hearted, hard-working young woman.
The Blacksmith's Daughter is a novel full of carefree summers and hard winters, old wives' tales and young people's ambitions - the melancholy beauty and pain of an ordinary life.
Autorentext
Selim Özdoan was born in Germany in 1971 and has been publishing his prose since 1995. He has won numerous prizes and grants and taught creative writing at the University of Michigan.Ayça Türkolu is a writer and literary translator based in North London. Her translation interests include the literature of the Turkish diaspora in Germany and minority literatures in Turkey.Katy Derbyshire translates contemporary German writers including Olga Grjasnowa, Sharon Dodua Otoo and Heike Geissler. She teaches literary translation and also heads the V&Q Books imprint.
Zusammenfassung
Part one of the Anatolian Blues trilogyTold with great affection for his characters, Selim Özdoan's trilogy traces out the life of Gül, a Turkish girl who grows up in 1950s Anatolia and then moves to Germany as a migrant worker. Book one details her initially idyllic childhood, ruptured by her mother's early death. Ever close to her loving father, Gül grows into a warm-hearted, hard-working young woman.The Blacksmith's Daughter is a novel full of carefree summers and hard winters, old wives' tales and young people's ambitions the melancholy beauty and pain of an ordinary life.
Titel
The Blacksmith's Daughter
Untertitel
Book one of the Anatolian Blues trilogy
Autor
Übersetzer
EAN
9783863913090
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Veröffentlichung
01.03.2021
Digitaler Kopierschutz
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Dateigrösse
1.1 MB
Anzahl Seiten
288
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