Cold nights of childhood / Tezer Özlü ; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Özlü, Tezer, author.

Savas, Aysegül, author of introduction.

Contributor:

Freely, Maureen, 1952- translator.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Çocukluğun soğuk geceleri. English

Language:

English

Turkish

Subjects (All):

Turkey--Fiction.

Turkey.

Berlin (Germany)--Fiction.

Berlin (Germany).

Germany--Berlin.

Genre:

Fiction

Psychological fiction

Psychological fiction.

Physical Description:

111 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : Transit Books, [2023]

Language Note:

In English, translated from the Turkish.

Summary:

"The narrator of Tezer Özlü's novel is between lovers. She is in and out of psychiatric wards, where she is forced to undergo electroshock treatments. She is between Berlin and Paris. She returns to Istanbul, in search of freedom, happiness, and new love. Set across the rambling orchards of a childhood in the Turkish provinces and the smoke-filled cafes of European capitals, Cold Nights of Childhood offers a sensual, unflinching portrayal of a woman's sexual encounters and psychological struggle, staging a clash between unbridled feminine desire and repressive, patriarchal society. Originally published in 1980, six years before her death at 43, Cold Nights of Childhood cemented Tezer Özlü's status as one of Turkey's most beloved writers. A classic that deserves to stand alongside The Bell Jar and Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight, Cold Nights of Childhood is a powerfully vivid, disorienting, and bittersweet novel about the determined embrace of life in all its complexity and confusion, translated into English here for the first time by Maureen Freely, with an introduction by Aysegül Savas."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Translation of: Çocukluğun soğuk geceleri.

"Cold Nights of Childhood (Çocukluğun soğuk geceleri) copyright The Estate of Tezer Özlü, 1980"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781945492693

1945492694

OCLC:

1377209781

Publisher Number:

99996044862