Hakan Gunday
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning More, by one of Turkey's leading underground writers, is the world's first novel about the refugee crisis. "The illegals climbed into the truck, and, after a journey of two hundred miles, they boarded ships and were lost in the night." Gaza lives on the shores of the Aegean Sea. At the age of nine he becomes a human trafficker, like his father. Together with his father and local boat owners Gaza helps smuggle desperate "illegals,"...
Author
Language
English
Description
The award-winning More, by one of Turkey's leading underground writers, is the world's first novel about the refugee crisis. "The illegals climbed into the truck, and, after a journey of two hundred miles, they boarded ships and were lost in the night." Gaza lives on the shores of the Aegean Sea. At the age of nine he becomes a human trafficker, like his father. Together with his father and local boat owners Gaza helps smuggle desperate "illegals,"...
Author
Language
English
Description
"I am here. Where are you?" These desperate words link the two protagonists of Hakan Günday's raw and fearless novel The Few. Derda is an eleven-year-old girl pulled out of boarding school by her mother who, without telling her, plans to sell her as a wife to a conservative tribesman. She goes with her new husband to London, where for five years he abuses and all but imprisons her. Even after escaping, Derda soon finds herself preyed upon by Londoners...
4) Bastardo
Author
Language
Español
Description
Hakan Günday nos ubica como lectores en una posición difícil respecto a los singulares personajes de esta novela, ya que parecen obstinarse en hacer casi imposible que empaticemos con sus actos y pensamientos. Asistimos a las conversaciones y escasas acciones de un grupo de bastardos en un Estambul alejado de cualquier imaginería exótica o turística. En Turquía un bastardo no es solo un hijo ilegítimo; también es bastardo aquel que traiciona...