Research Catalog

Title

Death in Troy / by Bilge Karasu ; translated from the Turkish by Aron Aji.

Author

Karasu, Bilge.

Publication

San Francisco : City Lights, c2002

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Aji, Aron, 1960-

Description

165 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Mushfik is a young man growing up in Turkey, first in Sarikum, a small coastal village, and later in urban Istanbul. He comes of age in an atmosphere of sublimated, disoriented eroticism, his impulses restrained by religious and sexual taboos, rigid gender roles, stifling maternal love, and the enforced silences of social decorum. Unable to adapt easily to society's unspoken rules, he is driven to the point of insanity from which he must slowly and painfully return." "Told from several points of view and structured in a series of intersecting flashbacks and interior monologues, Death In Troy describes the difficult geography of male intimacy from multiple perspectives - adolescent friendship, homosexual desire, mother-son bonds, and the relationships between men and women. In a complex chorus of styles and voices, Karasu evokes states of exaltation, humiliation, passion, and despair to create a jarring disharmony of one boy's growth into manhood."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Troya'da ölüm vardı. English

Alternative Title

Troya'da ölüm vardı.

Subject

• Mothers and sons > Turkey > Fiction
• Man-woman relationships > Turkey > Fiction

Genre/Form

Fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Birth -- Entering Sarikum -- The First of the Songless Nights -- The Fifth Day -- One of the Rooms -- Room after Room, the World -- An Unrelenting -- The Zanzalak Tree -- Scorched -- Fork -- And How Come I Remember Now ... -- The Key -- The Bitter Root Tasting Rain.

ISBN

0872864014

LCCN

^^2002024170

OCLC

49226322

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library