| The City in Crimson Cloak Contributor(s): Erdogan, Asli (Author), Spangler, Amy (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1933368748 ISBN-13: 9781933368740 Publisher: Soft Skull OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2007 Annotation: Ozgur is poor, hungry, and on the verge of a mental breakdown, with only one weapon against Rio: to write the city that has robbed her of everything. Reading the bits and pieces of Ozgur's unfinished eponymous novel, with its autobiographical protagonist named O, Ozgur's story begins to emerge. Meanwhile, the narrator limns a single day of Ozgur's life, which is in fact her last. As Ozgur follows O through the shanty towns, Condomble rituals, and the violence and sexuality of the streets to her own death, the narrator searches for a way to make peace with life, a route to catharsis. The two concentric novels, the borderline between the two Rio's -- Ozgur's Rio as a metaphor for death and Rio as life -- begin to blur. Asli Erdogan's brilliantly evocative, experimental second novel was a major hit in Turkey and Europe. Now available in translation, the book does for Rio what Joyce did for Dublin. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Biographical - Fiction | City Life |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2007032802 |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.26" W x 7.96" (0.36 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From an "exceptionally sensitive and perceptive" Turkish writer and human rights activist (Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature), the captivating story of a writer whose own autobiographical novel forces her to come to terms with the dichotomy of the city she once loved: Rio de Janeiro. Özgür is a young woman on fire: poor, hungry, and on the verge of a mental breakdown. She has only one weapon: her ability to write the city that has robbed her of everything, Rio de Janeiro. Through the reading of the bits and pieces of Özgür's unfinished eponymous novel, with its autobiographical protagonist named Ö, Özgür's story begins to emerge. As Özgür follows Ö through the shanty towns, Condomble rituals, and the violence and sexuality of the streets of Rio, the reader follows Özgür as she searches for a way to make peace with life, a route to catharsis. Together, the two concentric novels reveal the blurry borderline between the two Rio's -- one a metaphor for death, one a city of life. A major hit when it was released in Turkey and Europe, The City in Crimson Cloak is brilliantly evocative and wildly experimental, doing for Rio what Joyce did for Dublin. |