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Snapping Point
Asli Bicen
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Description for Snapping Point
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‘But for that slender connection with the mainland, Andalıç would have been a regular island,’ says Aslı Biçen in the opening chapter of this deliciously multi-layered novel. And it would have been an ordinary story about love and loss, if it weren't for the earthquake that unexpectedly sets the landmass afloat on the Aegean, kindling a series of increasingly oppressive measures by the authorities; ostensibly to keep public order. As Andalıç drifts between Greece and Turkey, things get from bad to worse, until eventually our heroes, Cemal and Jülide, join the growing resistance, and even nature lends a helping hand, ... Read more
‘But for that slender connection with the mainland, Andalıç would have been a regular island,’ says Aslı Biçen in the opening chapter of this deliciously multi-layered novel. And it would have been an ordinary story about love and loss, if it weren't for the earthquake that unexpectedly sets the landmass afloat on the Aegean, kindling a series of increasingly oppressive measures by the authorities; ostensibly to keep public order. As Andalıç drifts between Greece and Turkey, things get from bad to worse, until eventually our heroes, Cemal and Jülide, join the growing resistance, and even nature lends a helping hand, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Istros Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781912545957
SKU
9781912545957
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Ref
99-1
About Asli Bicen
Aslı Biçen was born in 1970 in Bursa and holds an Honours degree in English Language and Literature and a Master’s in Translation Studies from Bosphorus University. Quite possibly Turkey’s most acclaimed literary translator of English language fiction, and a founder member of the Book Translators’ Association, Biçen has translated Dickens, Faulkner, Durrell, Rushdie, Fowles, Barnes, Berger, Singer, Steinbeck, Banks, ... Read more
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