The Stone Building and Other Places

✍ Scribed by Erdogan, Asli

• Book ID: 109963791
• Publisher: City Lights Publishers
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 493 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780872867512

✦ Synopsis

"Aslı Erdoğan is an exceptionally perceptive and sensitive writer who always produces perfect literary texts."--Orhan Pamuk

"Now, as her fame grows, her books have been selling more, and her [Turkish] publisher has issued new printings. One volume of short stories, The Stone Building and Other Places has become a bestseller in Turkey."--The New York Times

"Beautifully written and honestly told, as tender as the tulip gardens of Istanbul and as brave as the human heart."--Elif Safak, author of The Forty Rules of Love

Three interconnected stories feature women whose lives have been interrupted by forces beyond their control. Exile, serious illness, or the imprisonment of one's beloved are each met with versions of strength and daring, while there is no undoing what fate has wrought. These atmospheric, introspective tales culminate in an experimental, multi-voiced novella, whose "stone building" is a metaphor for the various oppressive...