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Madonna in a Fur Coat
Madonna in a Fur Coat
hardback | English,turkish
Published:
5 May, 2016
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780241206195 |
| ISBN10 | 0241206197 |
| Number Of Pages | 176 |
| Item Weight | 320 g |
| Product Dimensions | 140 x 26 x 212 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Penguin Classics |
| Format | hardback |
Media Reviews
Full of yearning and melancholy. Short, moving and memorable: reading it is like taking a literary minibreak. -- Fiona Wilson * The Times *
Its prose sparkles with the friction between eastern conservatism and western decadence. This is above all a tale of young love and disenchantment, of missed opportunities and passion's elusive, flickering flame . . . a little reminiscent of Turgenev's First Love, with a hero every bit as gauche, and a twist every bit as bitter. -- Toby Lichtig * Financial Times *
A gorgeously melancholic romance . . . a cautionary tale certain to beguile. -- Eileen Battersby * The Irish Times *
A poignant coming-of-age tale, drenched in disillusionment. The gap between hope and reality, art and ordinary life, has been explored in many other novels, but rarely with the unaffected simplicity of Madonna in a Fur Coat . . .The translation by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe is crisp, capturing Ali's directness and clarity of language. -- William Armstrong * Times Literary Supplement *
Offsets inter-war Berlin's decadent dazzle with bouts of shade, murk and melancholy . . . recreates a vanished era and dramatises a doomed relationship, and does so with verve, depth and poignancy. The result is a miniature masterpiece. -- Malcolm Forbes * The National *
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Author's Bio
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.