Dear Shameless Death

By Latife Tekin

A nihilistic wit reminiscent of Samuel Beckett.?Independent on Sunday

This is the strange, magical story of a young girl growing up in modern Turkey, from her birth in a small rural village haunted by fairies and demons to her traumatic move to the big city. Based on her own childhood experiences, Latife Tekin's literary debut marked a turning point in Turkish fiction.

Concentrating on a daughter's struggle against her overbearing mother set against the pressures of a rapidly changing society, Dear Shameless Death is a fantastic, hallucinatory novel, with strong feminist insights about what it means to be a woman growing up in Turkey today.

A major best seller in her native Turkey, Latife Tekin maintains a politically active presence and has written a number of literary works. Her first novel, Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills, was published by Marion Boyars to great critical acclaim.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714530549
• ISBN13: 9780714530543
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.8" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A moving and vivid depiction of a young girl growing up...

This book is a moving and vivid depiction of the experiences of a young girl growing up in modern Turkey, set against a backdrop of extreme change as her traditional family moves from a rural to an urban environment.It's a whirlwind of a book that rushes you from event to event. It took me a little while to get used to the style, but I started enjoying it soon enough.

a little hard to understand but interesting one

It tells the story of a family that first lives in a village. An interesting thought mother is the markable character,i think. Even the sentences were short , you had to read them carefully. The writer has chosen impressive words. First day I thought that I couldn't go on reading,it made headache. But as I have never left a book while reading,I couldnt behave the same to this one, then decided to go on, and I was right with this choice.