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Madonna in a Fur Coat: A Novel
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781590518809
- Book Title
- Madonna in a Fur Coat : a Novel
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publisher
- Other Press, LLC
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Cultural Heritage, Coming of Age, Historical, Jewish
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 8.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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Available in English for the first time, this best-selling Turkish classic of love and alienation in a changing world captures the vibrancy of interwar Berlin. A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade and discover life in 1920s Berlin. There, amidst the city's bustling streets, elegant museums, passionate politics, and infamous cabarets, a chance meeting with a beautiful half-Jewish artist transforms him forever. Caught between his desire for freedom from tradition and his yearning to belong, he struggles to hold on to the new life he has found with the woman he loves. Emotionally powerful, intensely atmospheric, and touchingly profound, Madonna in a Fur Coat is an unforgettable novel about new beginnings, the relentless pull of family ties, and the unfathomable nature of the human soul. First published in 1943, this novel, with its quiet yet insistent defiance of social norms, has been topping best-seller lists in Turkey since 2013.
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Publisher
Other Press, LLC
ISBN-10
1590518802
ISBN-13
9781590518809
eBay Product ID (ePID)
235036033
Product Key Features
Book Title
Madonna in a Fur Coat : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Coming of Age, Historical, Jewish
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
8.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pl248.A38k7513 2017
Reviews
"The surprise bestseller...Read, loved and wept over by men and women of all ages. --GUARDIAN "A rare point of common cultural experience for a deeply polarized country." --NEW YORK TIMES "A poignant coming-of-age tale, drenched in disillusionment. The gap between hope and reality, art and ordinary life, has been explored in many other novels, but rarely with the unaffected simplicity of Madonna in a Fur Coat ...The translation by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe is crisp, capturing Ali''s directness and clarity of language." --TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT "Finally available in English, this 1943 Turkish classic from a journalist twice imprisoned for his political views limns the emotionally wrought relationship between a reserved young Turkish man and an unconventional woman artist in interwar Berlin...Ali''s affecting story of love and loss is both timeless and grounded in its distinctive setting, with sometimes old-fashioned charm that will appeal to many readers." -- LIBRARY JOURNAL "Ali (1907-48), a dissident Turkish writer imprisoned and later, it is believed, murdered by the state, originally published this then largely overlooked love story in 1943. Decades later, it holds a place on Turkey''s best-seller lists, arguably in response to the recent government crackdown on civil liberties. Available in English in the U.S. for the first time, Ali''s memorable novel explores fatalism and the complications of temperament, family ties, and unconventional love." -- BOOKLIST "Offsets inter-war Berlin''s decadent dazzle with bouts of shade, murk, and melancholy...recreates a vanished era and dramatizes a doomed relationship, and does so with verve, depth, and poignancy. The result is a miniature masterpiece." -- THE NATIONAL "A gorgeously melancholic romance...a cautionary tale certain to beguile." -- IRISH TIMES "Its prose sparkles with the friction between Eastern conservatism and Western decadence. This is above all a tale of young love and disenchantment, of missed opportunities and passion''s elusive, flickering flame... a little reminiscent of Turgenev''s First Love , with a hero every bit as gauche, and a twist every bit as bitter." -- FINANCIAL TIMES "A heart-breaker... It has the kind of indefinably powerful impact of The Great Gatsby." --OBSERVER (UK) "Moving and memorable, full of yearning and melancholy." -- THE TIMES (UK) "Madonna in a Fur Coat follows a young, fragile Turkish man''s love for a charismatic German artist...Like Sabahattin Ali, he is a dreamy young man in love with books and is considered a failure by people whose cruelties towards the less fortunate he never fails to see... With a few masterly brush strokes, Ali draws a portrait of New Turkey''s model middle-class family." -- BELIEVER MAGAZINE "A latter-day Sorrows of Young Werther . " -- ASIAN REVIEW OF BOOKS "A simple yet gorgeously written love story about a shy, cynical young man named Raif, who is sent by his father to Berlin to learn the scented soap-making trade... It seems to me that that which inspires a younger generation to read, en masse, a seventy year-old book is the same thing that inspires them to fill the streets." -- TIN HOUSE "A classic in Turkey, this is a post modern, tragic love story set in Berlin in the Thirties. It was atmospheric and beautifully written and reminded me in places of Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. It was rather lovely in a melancholy way." --KATYBOO1''S WEBLOG "Passionate but clear . . . Ali''s success [is in] his ability to describe the emergence of a feeling, seemingly straightforward from the outside but swinging back and forth between opposite extremes at its core, revealing the tensions that accompanies such rise and fall." --Atilla zkirimli, writer and literary historian "Exquisitely translated, perfectly captures the style and rhythm of this gripping love story." --Seluk Altun, internationally bestselling author of The Sultan of Byzantium, "The surprise bestseller...Read, loved and wept over by men and women of all ages. --GUARDIAN "A rare point of common cultural experience for a deeply polarized country." --NEW YORK TIMES "A poignant coming-of-age tale, drenched in disillusionment. The gap between hope and reality, art and ordinary life, has been explored in many other novels, but rarely with the unaffected simplicity of Madonna in a Fur Coat ...The translation by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe is crisp, capturing Ali's directness and clarity of language." --TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT "Offsets inter-war Berlin's decadent dazzle with bouts of shade, murk, and melancholy...recreates a vanished era and dramatizes a doomed relationship, and does so with verve, depth, and poignancy. The result is a miniature masterpiece." -- The National "A gorgeously melancholic romance...a cautionary tale certain to beguile." -- Irish Times "Its prose sparkles with the friction between Eastern conservatism and Western decadence. This is above all a tale of young love and disenchantment, of missed opportunities and passion's elusive, flickering flame... a little reminiscent of Turgenev's First Love , with a hero every bit as gauche, and a twist every bit as bitter." -- Financial Times "A heart-breaker... It has the kind of indefinably powerful impact of The Great Gatsby." --OBSERVER (UK) "Moving and memorable, full of yearning and melancholy." -- THE TIMES (UK) "Madonna in a Fur Coat follows a young, fragile Turkish man's love for a charismatic German artist...Like Sabahattin Ali, he is a dreamy young man in love with books and is considered a failure by people whose cruelties towards the less fortunate he never fails to see... With a few masterly brush strokes, Ali draws a portrait of New Turkey's model middle-class family." -- BELIEVER MAGAZINE "A latter-day Sorrows of Young Werther . " -- ASIAN REVIEW OF BOOKS "A simple yet gorgeously written love story about a shy, cynical young man named Raif, who is sent by his father to Berlin to learn the scented soap-making trade... It seems to me that that which inspires a younger generation to read, en masse, a seventy year-old book is the same thing that inspires them to fill the streets." -- TIN HOUSE "Passionate but clear . . . Ali's success [is in] his ability to describe the emergence of a feeling, seemingly straightforward from the outside but swinging back and forth between opposite extremes at its core, revealing the tensions that accompanies such rise and fall." --Atilla zkirimli, writer and literary historian "Exquisitely translated, perfectly captures the style and rhythm of this gripping love story." --Seluk Altun, internationally bestselling author of The Sultan of Byzantium, "A poignant coming-of-age tale, drenched in disillusionment. The gap between hope and reality, art and ordinary life, has been explored in many other novels, but rarely with the unaffected simplicity of Madonna in a Fur Coat ...The translation by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe is crisp, capturing Ali's directness and clarity of language." --William Armstrong, Times Literary Supplement "Offsets inter-war Berlin's decadent dazzle with bouts of shade, murk, and melancholy...recreates a vanished era and dramatizes a doomed relationship, and does so with verve, depth, and poignancy. The result is a miniature masterpiece." --Malcolm Forbes, The National "A gorgeously melancholic romance...a cautionary tale certain to beguile." --Eileen Battersby, Irish Times "Its prose sparkles with the friction between Eastern conservatism and Western decadence. This is above all a tale of young love and disenchantment, of missed opportunities and passion's elusive, flickering flame... a little reminiscent of Turgenev's First Love , with a hero every bit as gauche, and a twist every bit as bitter." --Toby Lichtig, Financial Times
Copyright Date
2017
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2016-053110
Dewey Decimal
894.3533
Dewey Edition
23
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