Description
A young girl is born into a rural world where fairies, demons, and folk tales feel as real as the seasons—until the family’s move to the city shatters the rhythms of home. As poverty tightens its grip and tradition collides with modern life, she must navigate grief, displacement, and the strange persistence of the stories her community carries. Blending lyrical realism with shimmering, myth-inflected narration, the novel turns everyday survival into a haunting, musical journey of memory and transformation. Themes of migration, cultural inheritance, and the cost of “progress” pulse beneath the surface, revealing how identity is remade when the past is both refuge and wound. Written in Latife Tekin’s distinctive, razzle-dazzle style—full of sound, light, and wonder—this is a novel that captivates even as it mystifies, inviting readers to feel the world rather than simply understand it.
Available Editions
paperback
Marion Boyars
Published Jan 1, 2001
224 pages
ISBN: 0714530549
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Details
First Published
2001
Language
eng
Translation
From: tur
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Dear Shameless Death by Latife Tekin.