The Life of the Party
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- 15 heures de lecture
Introduces Hector Cabot, a wild drunk and philanderer, who is both the catalyst and court jester to a group of displaced Americans and Europeans in an expatriate community in Istanbul






Introduces Hector Cabot, a wild drunk and philanderer, who is both the catalyst and court jester to a group of displaced Americans and Europeans in an expatriate community in Istanbul
This work explores why feminism comes into conflict with women who have children, and why women with children suffer when they try to put feminist ideas into practice.
In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa, among others, and he discusses his own books and writing process. We also learn how he lives, as he recounts his successful struggle to quit smoking, describes his relationship with his daughter, and reflects on the controversy he has attracted in recent years. Here is a thoughtful compilation of a brilliant novelist's best nonfiction, offering different perspectives on his lifelong obsessions with loneliness, contentment, and the books and cities that have shaped his experience.
The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique.
Le jeune poète turc Ka quitte son exil allemand pour se rendre à Kars, une petite ville provinciale endormie d'Anatolie. Pour le compte d'un journal d'Istanbul, il part enquêter sur plusieurs cas de suicide de jeunes femmes portant le foulard. Mais Ka désire aussi retrouver la belle Ipek, ancienne camarade de faculté fraîchement divorcée. A peine arrivé dans la ville de Kars, en pleine effervescence en raison des prochaines élections, il est l'objet de diverses sollicitudes : le chef de la police locale, la soeur d'Ipek, l'islamiste radical Lazuli vivant dans la clandestinité, ou l'acteur républicain Sunay, tous essaient de le rallier à leur cause. Mais ka avance, comme dans un rêve, voyant tout à travers le filtre de son inspiration poétique retrouvée, stimulée par sa passion grandissante pour Ipek, et le voile de neige qui couvre la ville. Jusqu'au soir où une représentation théâtrale se transforme en putsch militaire et tourne au carnage. Un extraordinaire roman à suspense qui, jouant habilement avec des sujets politiques très contemporains, comme l'identité de la société turque et la nature du fanatisme religieux, surprend par ce ton poétique et nostalgique qui, telle la neige, nimbe chaque page.
Jeannie Wakefield needs help. Her family is being held by the US authorities. M is a journalist and at Jeannie's request she returns to Istanbul to investigate. She tries to be objective, but Jeannie's husband is also M's first love.
Freelys Thema ist ädas befremdende Vorurteil gegenüber Mütternä als zentralem Problem des modernen Feminismus. Ihr frischer, herzhafter Zugriff auf Alltag und Rolle von Müttern ist zugleich ironisierender Sozialreport und enthält auch konstruktive Thesen.