by E. Ozdamar · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783462023190
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«Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei» is the novel by Emine Sevgi Özdamar, published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in paperback (380 pages, in German).
The novel follows the childhood of a girl in mid-twentieth-century Turkey, between Ankara and Istanbul, in a family marked by labour emigration to Germany. Özdamar weaves myths, Islamic rituals and dreams with the weight of history, uprootedness and the search for a home, building a collective portrait of the country.
The work won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1991 and belongs to the author's Istanbul-Berlin trilogy.
A read for those interested in coming-of-age novels, magical realism and migration between Turkey and Germany.
Emine Sevgi Özdamar is a writer, director, and actress of Turkish origin who has lived and worked in Germany since 1976. Özdamar's art is distinctive in that it is influenced by her life experiences, which straddle the countries of Germany and Turkey throughout times of turmoil in both. One of her most notable accomplishments is winning the 1991 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.
