The City in Crimson Cloak [Paperback]

Asli Erdogan (Author), Amy Spangler (Translator)

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Book Description

Publication Date: May 28 2007

Ozgur, having deserted her past and secluded herself from the outer world, is poor, hungry, and on the verge of a mental breakdown. She has a single weapon left in the all-out war she has declared against Rio de Janerio: to write the city, which has trapped her and robbed her of everything. As we read the bits and pieces of Ozgur's unfinished novel, The City in Crimson Cloak, with its autobiographical protagonist named, for the time being, only as O., we begin to put together the fragments of Ozgur's story. Meanwhile, the narrator tells us of a single day of Ozgur's life which is, in fact, her last.

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Product Details

Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Soft Skull Press; 1 edition (May 28 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1933368748
ISBN-13: 978-1933368740
Product Dimensions: 12.8 x 1.2 x 20.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 41 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #937,171 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #28 in Books > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > Middle Eastern > Turkey

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From Publishers Weekly

Turkish author Erdogan vividly captures the life and sin of underclass Rio de Janeiro in this darkly atmospheric novel, published in Turkey in 1998. A native of Istanbul, Özgür has spent the past two years barely surviving in Rio, a city overflowing with debauchery and violence. Lonely, penurious and hungry, Özgür's only solace is writing, and she has committed herself to staying in Rio until she does the city justice in her own book, The City in Crimson Cloak, which here becomes a novel within a novel. On the city's Fireworks Day, she makes her way through the favelas, or slums, gathering impressions of the chaos and carnality while recalling pieces of her autobiographical novel and journal entries. Özgür's battle to hold on to her own reality makes for a stark, nightmarish journey.
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About the Author

Asli Erdogan is a human rights activist and former Turkish representative of PEN's Writers in Prison Committee. Both she and translator Amy Spangler live in Istanbul.