Lojman Ojen Ebru
A gritty novel by one of Turkey's most promising young authors offers an unblinking portrait of the disfigurement and disintegration of a woman whose powerlessness becomes lethal.Lojman tells, on its…
Specifikacia Lojman Ojen Ebru
A gritty novel by one of Turkey's most promising young authors offers an unblinking portrait of the disfigurement and disintegration of a woman whose powerlessness becomes lethal.Lojman tells, on its surface, the domestic tale of a Kurdish family living in a small village on a desolate plateau at the foot of the snow-capped mountains of Turkey's Van province. Virtually every aspect of the family's life is dictated by the government, from their exile to the country's remote, easternmost region to their sequestration in the grim "teacher's lodging"--or lojman--to which they're assigned. When Selma's husband walks out one day, he leaves in his wake a storm of resentment between his young children and a mother reluctant to parent them. Marooned by an epic snowstorm, Selma gives birth to her third child, and in the days that follow her growing sense of entrapment and