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Utopia's End |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / BOOKS FROM ABROAD |
| Author: Talat Halman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 1,767 Words, 11,315 Characters |
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BALIK IZLERINN SESI
(The sound of the traces of fish)
Buket Uzuner
Istanbul: Remzi Kita bevi, 1992
219 pp.
Cyrano de Bergerac did not try to hold back his tears; Brooks Nin kept cracking her red fingernails; Jeanne d'Arc, doubled up on the steps, her head stooping, mumbled something that sounded like babbling in Latin; Anders Grieg furiously scribbled notes in the music book in front of him; Roni Chagall was busy polishing a gigantic evil-eye bead. Parveen Nehru sat crosslegged on the floor … while Aurora Sand ran her fingers through her hair…. Carmen de Cervantes, carried away by a music only she heard, was dancing a flamenco of death. Galilei was gone. The others stood still in a posture of reverence. Even Genghis Khan seemed sad. As we went down the stairs, Romain [Gary] ...
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...e than one mother tongue … the only determinant of that is the language of the lullabies… Those raised without lullabies have altogether different culture.
With her own language of lullabies, Uzuner revels in the life of the imagination, which is perhaps the greatest strength of her art. This novel, her latest and boldest leap into a supreme fiction, is worthy of international recognition.
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