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Every Fire You Tend - Kaygusuz, Sema, and Glastonbury, Nicholas (Translated by)
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This novel by one of Turkey's most highly regarded writers tells the story of a granddaughter's reckoning with the suppressed and traumatic memories of her grandmother, who survived a genocidal massacre in the Dersim region of southeast Turkey in 1938. Based on Sema Kaygusuz's relationship to her own grandmother, the novel embeds the turmoil of contemporary mass violence within mythic and deep historical timescapes, cracking open the modern history of Turkey to ask greater questions about good and evil, about exile and ...

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Every Fire You Tend 2019, Tilted Axis Press, London

ISBN-13: 9781911284291

Paperback