"A profoundly moving account of desperation, exhilaration, and
endurance."--Kirkus Reviews
**The Bell Jar meets Good Morning, Midnight, by one of Turkey's most
beloved writers.
**The narrator of Tezer Özlü's novel is between lovers. She is in and
out of psychiatric wards, where she is forced to undergo electroshock
treatments. She is between Berlin and Paris. She returns to Istanbul, in
search of freedom, happiness, and new love.
Set across the rambling orchards of a childhood in the Turkish provinces
and the smoke-filled cafes of European capitals, Cold Nights of
Childhood offers a sensual, unflinching portrayal of a woman's sexual
encounters and psychological struggle, staging a clash between unbridled
feminine desire and repressive, patriarchal society.
Originally published in 1980, six years before her death at 43, Cold
Nights of Childhood cemented Tezer Özlü's status as one of Turkey's
most beloved writers. A classic that deserves to stand alongside The
Bell Jar and Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight, Cold Nights of
Childhood is a powerfully vivid, disorienting, and bittersweet novel
about the determined embrace of life in all its complexity and
confusion, translated into English here for the first time by Maureen
Freely, with an introduction by Aysegül Savas.
