Madonna In A Fur Coat

Author: Sabahattin Ali; Alexander Dawe (Translator); Maureen Freely (Translator)

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  • : 19.99 AUD
  • : 9780241293850
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  • : June 2017
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : March 2017
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Description

The bestselling Turkish classic of love and longing in a changing world, available in English for the first time. 'It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected.' A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The city's crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman, which will haunt him for the rest of his life. Emotionally powerful, intensely atmospheric and touchingly profound, Madonna in a Fur Coat is an unforgettable novel about new beginnings and the unfathomable nature of the human soul. 'Passionate but clear . . . Ali's success is in ] his ability to describe the emergence of a feeling, seemingly straightforward from the outside but swinging back and forth between opposite extremes at its core, revealing the tensions that accompanies such rise and fall.' Atilla zkirimli, writer and literary historian

Reviews

'Moving and memorable, full of yearning and melancholy ... reading it is like taking a literary minibreak. -- Fiona Wilson The Times A tale of young love and disenchantment, of missed opportunities and passion's elusive, flickering flame ... reminiscent of Turgenev's First Love, with a hero every bit as gauche, and a twist every bit as bitter -- Toby Lichtig Financial Times Recreates a vanished era and dramatises a doomed relationship, and does so with verve, depth and poignancy. A miniature masterpiece. -- Malcolm Forbes The National

Author description

Sabahattin Ali (Author) Sabahattin Ali was born in 1907 in the Ottoman town of Egridere (now Ardino in southern Bulgaria) and was killed on the Bulgarian border in 1948 as he attempted to leave Turkey. A teacher, writer, and journalist, he owned and edited a popular weekly newspaper called Marko Pasa and was imprisoned twice for his political views.