Ilhan Engagement

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-912545-47-6
Verlag: Istros Books
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 112 Seiten

A celebratory dinner and engagement ceremony is to be held at a large home in Our Village, in southeast Turkey. Halil, the cousin of the future bride, Leyla, is sent to a nearby village to buy the traditional cologne. Leyla's sister, Maral, is told to go door-to-door to remind everyone to attend. Throughout the long day, the other women of the household clean, cook and toil. Meanwhile, a dust storm descends out of nowhere and a menacing mist settles over the village streets. This harrowing tale, which spans sixteen hours and is told through the eyes of a mysterious narrator, delves into the bad blood between two timeless villages where most of the men are heavily armed village guards, and there is money to be made in agriculture, oil, fish farms and more. Geographical complexities, tangled relations, hazy memories and unreliable witnesses make for a story in which perhaps is nothing as it seems...

Çiler ?lhan's essays, book reviews and travel writings have appeared in numerous magazine and newspaper supplements. Her stories and essays have been included in 20 national and international anthologies. Çiler ?lhan studied International Relations and Political Science at Bo?aziçi University in Türkiye, and Hotel Management at the Glion Hotel School in Switzerland. She has worked in hotel management, marketing/communications, and publishing (as an editor/writer). She's a member of Turkish and Dutch PEN. Born and raised in Türkiye, she currently lives in the Netherlands. Awards: Exile -European Union Prize for Literature 2011 (euprizeliterature.eu) Exile -Prix Du Livre Lorientales 2017, finalist 'Notable Short Story Award', Ya?ar Nabi Nay?r Youth Awards.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ilhan, Ciler

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dakan, Kenneth