Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills
by Latife Tekin | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: Global Overview for this book
ISBN: Global Overview for this book
Registered by 
Annelis
of Kerava, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on 11/12/2013
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
Annelis of Kerava, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on 11/12/2013 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
A nihilistic wit reminiscent of Samuel Beckett.?Independent on Sunday
The cast-offs of modern urban society are driven out onto the edges of the city and left to make a life there for themselves. They are not, however, in any natural wilderness, but in a world of refuse and useless junk?a place which denies any form of sustainable life. Here, the unemployed, the homeless, the old and the bereft struggle to build shelters out of old tin cans, scavenge for food and fight against insuperable odds.
And yet somehow they survive: it seems that society thrives on the garbage hills because it has always been built on one. In this dark fairy tale full of scenes taken from what has increasingly become a way of life for many inhabitants on this planet, Latife Tekin has written a grim parable of human destiny.
A major best seller in her native Turkey, Latife Tekin maintains a politically active presence and has written a number of literary works.
Saliha Paker translates Turkish poetry and is a member of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham. Ruth Christie is a translator of Turkish poetry and prose.
160 pages
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Not a big book but it took me about 4 years to read it. So it is not really my cup of tea this kind of magic realism. If I remember right I bought the book some 6 years ago.
This book stands for Turkey in my challenge A Book from Every Country
This is my # 106 (120) in
"REDUCE MOUNT TBR 2013" Challenge arranged by Dove-i-Libri.
The cast-offs of modern urban society are driven out onto the edges of the city and left to make a life there for themselves. They are not, however, in any natural wilderness, but in a world of refuse and useless junk?a place which denies any form of sustainable life. Here, the unemployed, the homeless, the old and the bereft struggle to build shelters out of old tin cans, scavenge for food and fight against insuperable odds.
And yet somehow they survive: it seems that society thrives on the garbage hills because it has always been built on one. In this dark fairy tale full of scenes taken from what has increasingly become a way of life for many inhabitants on this planet, Latife Tekin has written a grim parable of human destiny.
A major best seller in her native Turkey, Latife Tekin maintains a politically active presence and has written a number of literary works.
Saliha Paker translates Turkish poetry and is a member of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham. Ruth Christie is a translator of Turkish poetry and prose.
160 pages
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Not a big book but it took me about 4 years to read it. So it is not really my cup of tea this kind of magic realism. If I remember right I bought the book some 6 years ago.
This book stands for Turkey in my challenge A Book from Every Country
This is my # 106 (120) in
"REDUCE MOUNT TBR 2013" Challenge arranged by Dove-i-Libri.
Journal Entry 2 by Annelis at -- Somewhere in Helsinki / Jossain päin kaupunkia in Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Friday, November 22, 2013
Annelis at -- Somewhere in Helsinki / Jossain päin kaupunkia in Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Friday, November 22, 2013
Released 10 yrs ago (11/21/2013 UTC) at -- Somewhere in Helsinki / Jossain päin kaupunkia in Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Themed release: I left the book about Garbage Hills at the Exhibition against the Waste of Food in The Nordic Culture point on Kaisaniemi Street.
Appelsiinin 52 viikkoa haasteen teemani viikolle 47 on Jätteet ja niipä teinkin teemavapautuksen, kun osuin sopivalle paikalle aivan sattumalta.
Teemavapautus:
Jätin Tarinoita Jätekukkuloilta -kirjan Pohjoismaiseen Kulttuuripisteeseen Kaisaniemenkadulle. Siellä oli juuri julistenäyttely, joka vastusti ruokatavaroiden joutumista jätteisiin.
