Kind Hearted Sinners — Cezmi Ersöz
Kind Hearted Sinners
Cezmi ErsözMİLET PUPLISHING
Kind Hearted Sinners
Cezmi ErsözSet in contemporary Istanbul Kind Hearted Sinners gives a lyrical first person account of the unravelling of a love affair as the unnamed narrator tries to salvage his life from the smouldering remnants embedded in his heart and his mind The Istanbul that is revealed is an anonymous metropolis a setting for the tawdriness and pettiness of ordinary lives and loves that have the potential to become extraordinary and poetic almost in defiance of the seemingly romantic backdrop of the city Two lovers who are never named never described lose their identity in their love and struggle to scramble back into individual existence either through a descent into respectability or into introspection and feeling and it is only from the ugliness of the situation that the beauty of the life giving words that compose this novel can be plucked
Milet
Istanbul A love affair unravels The lovers never named never described lose their identities in their love and struggle to return to individual existence either through descent into respectability or into introspection and feeling As they attempt to salvage their lives from the smouldering remnats embedded in their heartrs their mindis it is only from the pain of the situation that the beauty of the life giving words that compose this novel can be grasped Here in an anonymous Istanbul ordinary lives and loves have the potential to become extraordinary and poetic Kind hearted Sinners vividly evokes the frustrations and indignities the exquisite and unparalleled pleasures of love It will move anyone who has ever been enriched by love or wounded by it who has ever yearned to know and possess another soul fully
Milet Publishing
Available in English for the first time this novel is an unrelenting and harsh glimpse into modern Istanbul Far from a glorification of the ancient city Istanbul is portrayed as an anonymous metropolis that is a mere backdrop for two unnamed lovers This book gives a first person lyrical account of an unraveling of a love affair as the narrator attempts to salvage the pieces of his broken heart and mind Both the protagonist and his unidentified love interest hail from the underclass and resist polite society as love internal struggle and the loss of identity are the prevailing themes in this melancholy and semi existentialist story Sayfa Sayısı 160Baskı Yılı 2012Dili İngilizceYayınevi Milet Publishing
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çev. Alvin Parmar
Istanbul A love affair unravels The lovers never named never described lose their identities in their love and struggle to return to individual existence either through descent into respectability or into introspection and feeling As they attempt to salvage their lives from the smouldering remnats embedded in their heartrs their mindis it is only from the pain of the situation that the beauty of the life giving words that compose this novel can be grasped Here in an anonymous Istanbul ordinary lives and loves have the potential to become extraordinary and poetic Kind hearted Sinners vividly evokes the frustrations and indignities the exquisite and unparalleled pleasures of love It will move anyone who has ever been enriched by love or wounded by it who has ever yearned to know and possess another soul fully