Dear Shameless Death

Dear Shameless Death

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<DIV>A nihilistic wit reminiscent of Samuel Beckett.?<I>Independent on Sunday</I><BR><BR>This is the strange, magical story of a young girl growing up in modern Turkey, from her birth in a small rural village haunted by fairies and demons to her traumatic move to the big city. Based on her own childhood experiences, Latife Tekin's literary debut marked a turning point in Turkish fiction.<BR><BR>Concentrating on a daughter's struggle against her overbearing mother set against the pressures of a rapidly changing society, <I>Dear Shameless Death</I> is a fantastic, hallucinatory novel, with strong feminist insights about what it means to be a woman growing up in Turkey today.<BR><BR>A major best seller in her native Turkey, Latife Tekin maintains a politically active presence and has written a number of literary works. Her first novel, <I>Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills</I>, was published by Marion Boyars to great critical acclaim.</DIV>