Cold nights of childhood
(Book)

Translation of: �Cocuklu�gun so�guk geceleri.

"Cold Nights of Childhood (�Cocuklu�gun so�guk geceleri) copyright The Estate of Tezer �Ozl�u, 1980"--Title page verso.

"The narrator of Tezer �Ozl�u'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. Set 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 �Ozl�u'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 Ayseg�ul Savas."--,Provided by publisher.

In English, translated from the Turkish.