by Hakan Günday · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782351763827
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«Encore» is Hakan Günday's novel, published by Editions Galaade in 2015 (384 pages, in French).
It tells the story of Gazâ, a boy who from the age of nine works on the Aegean coast as a migrant smuggler with his father. The death of a young Afghan, the only one who showed him humanity, marks him forever: he keeps the paper frog that he gave him as he becomes a torturer of clandestine migrants, until one night everything changes.
Originally published in Turkish as «Daha» (2013), with a translation by Jean Descat. Winner of the Prix Médicis étranger 2015 and of the prize for the best Turkish novel of the year.
For readers of contemporary novels who are looking for intense stories about migration, power and survival, with an ambiguous protagonist.
Hakan Günday is a Turkish writer novelist and screenwriter. He was born on the island of Rhodes in 1976. He lived in Brussels as a boy, before moving to Ankara where he completed Tevfik Fikret High School. He studied in Hacettepe University, Université libre de Bruxelles and Ankara University.
