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Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills4 reviews
Latife Tekin

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2009

Offers Keen Insight into the Migrant's Plight
Latife Tekin tells the incredible story of a group of rural migrants who build a shantytown in a garbage dump and their experiences in trying to adapt to urban life. A nameless narrator recounts the abstract history of the garbage hills from the point of view of a removed observer, which leaves plenty of room for Tekin's characters to take center stage. Although the inhabitants of the ...
  
  











  



  
Swords of Ice
Latife Tekin

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2007

Halilhan Sunteriler, would-be entrepreneur, rescues from the scrap heap a red Volvo, which he believes will lead him to big money in business ventures. So he solicits the help of his staunch friend Gogi, the most "cultured" man of the neighborhood, and gradually Halilhan's two younger brothers, Hazmi and Mesut, are also drawn into the project. With penetrating insights into the poor man's tragicomic hunt for money in the surreal world of ...
  
  











  



  
Dear Shameless Death2 reviews
Latife Tekin

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2001

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.
  
  











  



  
Gece Dersleri.
Latife Tekin

Edition Orient, 2004
  
  











  







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