Cold Nights of Childhood (Paperback)
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A lyrical yet approachable wisdom emanates from the prose of Ozlu's story of growth, breakdown, and rebuild. It's the type of book one reads with a highlighter always poised to capture the many moments of brilliance. It's not quite right to call Cold Nights of Childhood Turkey's The Bell Jar, but it breaks similar ground & explores similar ideas.
- Josh
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"A profoundly moving account of desperation, exhilaration, and endurance."--Kirkus ReviewsThe Bell Jar meets Good Morning, Midnight, by one of Turkey's most beloved writers.
The narrator of Tezer zl '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 zl '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 Ayseg l Savas.