Author Julie Gilbert Discusses the Writing of Her New Book ‘Giant Love’
Julie Gilbert Today, we delve into the enduring relevance of the themes explored by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Edna Ferber
The following is from xxx’s Lojman . Ojen was born in 1981 to Kurdish parents in Malatya, Turkey. In 2014, Ojen published her striking debut novel, Aşı (Vaccine) , about a state-sponsored vaccine campaign in an imaginary Kurdish village. That same year, Ojen was recognized among the ten most important emerging voices in Turkish literature. Her next novel, Let the Carnivores Kill Each Other appeared in 2017. She currently resides in Istanbul, Turkey. The last days of January. The village, poised to withstand another month of violent storms, was a dark, iron-colored cloud settled among the mountains and hills. The villagers carried cowpats and wood from barns to homes, baked bread in pit ovens, fed the animals, and visited each other from time to time. The footpaths, the water canals, the poplar trees surrounding the plains alongside the dirt road that led to the asphalt, all were covered in ice, the soil had frozen through, Lake Van was covered in a thick layer of fog. In the vastness of that scene, the lojman seemed smaller and smaller, squeezed into a ball, like a grenade that could explode at any moment. Yasin was watching the smoke that rose from the lojman’s chimney against the background of pure white snow. The Erciş Plateau stretched out before him. His random thoughts idled around fleeting topics, and his mind, unable to focus on anything else, honed in on the teacher’s house. He wanted to know what went on inside that concrete dwelling, what Selma did throughout the day, how she walked around in the living room, the kitchen, down the hallway, how she treated her children. Selma’s instability seemed more pronounced to him since Metin’s departure. The children had looked neglected when he saw them last. He didn’t even want to ask how the newborn was doing. Once or twice he had thought of congratulating Selma, but had been discouraged by her stern look that suggested quite clearly that there was nothing worth congratulating. After a long trek, he reached the lojman. His heart sank at the sight of the abandoned school building. […]
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Julie Gilbert Today, we delve into the enduring relevance of the themes explored by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Edna Ferber
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