History’s waiting room 2 mars 2015
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Review (UK) March 2, 2015, p. 20
Pankaj Mishra
The Architect’s Apprentice 22 novembre 2014
Posted by Acturca in Books / Livres, Istanbul, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Elif Safak, Elif Shafak, Mimar Sinan, novel
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The Guardian (UK) Saturday, November 22, 2014, p. 11
Aditi Sriram
A boy’s love for an elephant brings old Istanbul to life. Elif Shafak’s novels resemble maps that use detailed keys to help readers to journey through them, so it’s not surprising that her latest book is about the building of an ancient city. (suite…)
Broken Homeland 21 octobre 2012
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, Books / Livres, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Book Review, Francine Prose, literature, novel, Orhan Pamuk, Turkey
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The New York Times (USA) Sunday, October 21, 2012, p. BR 11
Book Review
By Francine Prose *
Three siblings are paying their annual summer visit to their 90-year-old grandmother in the family home by the sea. Reduced to these bare bones of plot, Orhan Pamuk’s « Silent House » almost sounds like one of those plays about dynastic reunions that help keep the lights of Broadway bright (suite…)
Turkish Writer Opens Museum Based on Novel 30 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, Books / Livres, Istanbul, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Istanbul, museum, Museum of Innocence, novel, Orhan Pamuk, Turkey
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The New York Times (USA) April 30, 2012, p. C1
By J. Michael Kennedy, Istanbul
The first thing you see are the cigarette butts. There are thousands of them — 4,213 to be exact — mounted behind plexiglass on the ground floor of the Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s new museum, named for and based on his 2008 novel, »The Museum of Innocence. » (suite…)
The expendable sex 24 mars 2012
Posted by Acturca in Books / Livres, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Book Review, Elif Shafak, Honour killings, Kurds, novel, Turkey / Turquie, women
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Financial Times (UK) Saturday, March 24, 2012, p. 15
Review by Suzy Hansen
In her groundbreaking 2008 book Honour Killing , the Turkish journalist Ayse Onal interviewed a 14-year-old boy named Mehmet Taner who « slit the throat » of his 16-year-old cousin for « going about in cafés ». (suite…)
Book: Hinterland 8 mars 2012
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, Books / Livres, Immigration.Tags: Afghanistan, Caroline Brothers, novel
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The Independent (UK) March 8, 2012, p. 44
The Thursday Book
By Anita Sethi
This intensely evocative novel opens on the border of Turkey, as the snows in the distant Balkans have melted, swelling the river that two brothers must cross. Two Afghani war orphans, 14-year-old Aryan and his eightyear-old brother Kabir, are on a perilous journey by foot, by boat, in the back of trucks and trailers. (suite…)
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