{"product_id":"cold-nights-of-childhood-9781945492693","title":"Cold Nights of Childhood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE TRANSLATION PRIZE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A profoundly moving account of desperation, exhilaration, and endurance.\"--\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003cem\u003eGood Morning, Midnight\u003c\/em\u003e, by one of Turkey's most beloved writers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe narrator of Tezer ?zl?'s novel is between lovers. She is in and out of psychiatric wards, where she is forced to undergo electroshock treatments. She is between Berlin and Paris. She returns to Istanbul, in search of freedom, happiness, and new love. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet across the rambling orchards of a childhood in the Turkish provinces and the smoke-filled cafes of European capitals, \u003cem\u003eCold Nights of Childhood\u003c\/em\u003e offers a sensual, unflinching portrayal of a woman's sexual encounters and psychological struggle, staging a clash between unbridled feminine desire and repressive, patriarchal society.Originally published in 1980, six years before her death at 43, \u003cem\u003eCold Nights of Childhood\u003c\/em\u003e cemented Tezer ?zl?'s status as one of Turkey's most beloved writers. A classic that deserves to stand alongside \u003cem\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/em\u003e and Jean Rhys's \u003cem\u003eGood Morning, Midnight\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCold Nights of Childhood\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerfully vivid, disorienting, and bittersweet novel about the determined embrace of life in all its complexity and confusion, translated into English here for the first time by Maureen Freely, with an introduction by Ayseg?l Savas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTezer Özlü\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1943 in Turkey and lived in Paris, Ankara, Istanbul, Berlin, and Zurich where she died in 1986. Cold Nights of Childhood is her first novel to be translated into English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaureen Freely\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, translator and Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies and a member of English PEN. She is the author of six novels, three works of non-fiction and is the translator of five books by the Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Transit Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50612011303186,"sku":"9781945492693","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f2910d45-f1ed-48c4-b4c8-d3131f726ea6.jpg?v=1732368363","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cold-nights-of-childhood-9781945492693","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}