I will never see the world again / Ahmet Altan ; translated by Yasemin Çongar from the Turkish ; foreword by Philippe Sands.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Altan, Ahmet, author.

Contributor:

Çongar, Yasemin, 1966- translator.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections. English

Language:

English

Turkish

Subjects (All):

Altan, Ahmet--Trials, litigation, etc.

Altan, Ahmet.

Journalism--Turkey.

Journalism.

Political crimes and offenses--Turkey.

Political crimes and offenses.

Turkey.

Turkey--Politics and government--1980-.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Trials, litigation, etc.

Autobiographies.

Essays.

Physical Description:

xi, 212 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Granta Books, 2019.

Language Note:

Translated from the Turkish.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The First Night in the Cage

The Mirror and the Doctor

The Teacher

The Cemetery of Pink Folders

Cheating

Encounter with Time

Voyage Around My Cell

The Dream

Serial Killer

Meryem

The Novelist Who Wrote His Own Destiny

The Reckoning

The Judge's Concern

Wood Sprites

The Notice

Handcuffs

The Bird.

ISBN:

1783785152

9781783785155

OCLC:

1047622625