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Laddar... Dawn: Stories (utgåvan 2019)av Selahattin Demirtaş (Författare)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This is one of those books that you'll keep turning over in your mind long after you've read it. The author, Selahattin Demitras, is a former civil rights attorney in Turkey, who is one of the many intellectuals who have been imprisoned since Erdogan came to power. Demitris dedicates this book to women, and his political philosophy clearly sees women's independence and self-determination as crucial for progress in his country. The individual stories in the collection have fairly simple structures, but the world-views of the different characters make their seeming simplicity deeply complex. If you care about current events, if you care about justice, if you like books that make you search your own soul, you will want to read Dawn. This is a collection of short stories written by Selahattin Demirtas, a Kurdish politician in Turkey who has been imprisoned for his political stances. In fact the book was written while the author was in prison. The stories tell about the everyday of normal people in Turkey. The everyday can be brutal, but the author does leave the reader with a glimmer of hope at the end. I found the stories interesting and the characters compelling. I feel like I got an excellent feeling of what life in Turkey under the current regime is like. Is there anything strange about any of this? I don't think so. It's just another day in the Middle East, a bomb or suicide vest going off somewhere, leaving in its wake dozens of broken bodies and a shattered marketplace in a poor neighborhood. This is a collection of short stories by Selahattin Demirtas, a Turkish human rights lawyer and politician who is currently a political prisoner, and this shows in this collection. Each story illuminates an aspect of life in Turkey, with a strong emphasis on how women function in Turkish society. The second story, Seher, was so bleak, the titular character so unable to have any agency in her own life, that I had to put the book aside for a few days. But most of the stories, although they often center on the difficult lives of women living in poverty, were hopeful, with each character making decisions and living as fully as circumstances allow. Dimirtas has a lot of love for his troubled country. So while the stories aren't literary masterpieces, they do illuminate the vibrant culture and personal resilience of a wide array of Turkish citizens. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Written from behind bars, DAWN is the unforgettable story collection from one of Turkey's leading politicians, and most powerful oppositional voices. From the dynamic political force 'who has evoked comparisons to President Obama' ( New York Times ), Selahattin Demirtaş' stories capture the voices of ordinary people living in extraordinary times - from cleaning ladies and teenage laborers, bus drivers and factory workers, from a violent demonstration in Ankara to a five-year-old girl's attempt to escape war-torn Syria by boat. With Demirtaş' trademark wit, warmth and humor, and seasoned by the vernacular of everyday speech, DAWN paints a remarkable portrait of life behind the headlines in Turkey and the Middle East - in all its hardship and adversity, freedom and hope. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)894.3534Literature Literature of other languages Altaic, Finno-Ugric, Uralic and Dravidian languages Turkic languages Turkish Turkish fiction 2000–Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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Thank you Goodreads and Crown for a chance to read Dawn: Stories by Selahattin Demirtas!
This kind of book isn't really my cup of tea. But I must say it was beautifully written. It is truly a wonderful book and at the same time heartbreaking. It was very enlightened to hear about a place I have never been from the writer's perspective. Happy reading everyone!! ( )