{"product_id":"cold-nights-of-childhood","title":"Cold Nights of Childhood","description":"WINNER OF THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE TRANSLATION PRIZE\n“A profoundly moving account of desperation, exhilaration, and endurance.”—Kirkus Reviews\nThe Bell Jar meets Good Morning, Midnight, by one of Turkey’s most beloved writers.\nThe 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.\n\nSet 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1945492694\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1945492694.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Freely, Maureen|Özlü, Tezer|Savas, Aysegül\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43245135429693,"sku":"BVV.1945492694.G","price":9.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1945492694-0.jpg?v=1780435553","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/cold-nights-of-childhood","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}