Boundless Solitude
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Boundless Solitude written by award winnign Turkish author Selim İleri offers a rare panorama of life in Istanbul in the 1980s and though Handan s recollections of her youth and relationships the novel explores the city s queer underworld It is a tale of desire and obsesion and a meditation on the haunting power of nostalgia
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Boundless Solitude tells the story of Handan Sarp a soprano at the Istanbul City Opera who has struggled throughout her life to come to terms with her lesbianism in a society that shuns the open expression of female queerness The novel is constructed as a series of vignettes which highlight the nature of memory as a means of reconstructing the past Sarp is a woman whose future holds no hope and whose life is shaped by the loneliness that results from her inner struggles as a lesbian in the restrictive social environment of Istanbul Sayfa Sayısı 552Baskı Yılı 2014Dili İngilizceYayınevi Milet Yayınları
