{"product_id":"cold-nights-of-childhood-9781945492693","title":"Cold Nights of Childhood","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A profoundly moving account of desperation, exhilaration, and endurance.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eGood Morning, Midnight\u003c\/i\u003e, by one of Turkey's most beloved writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe narrator of Tezer Özlü'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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet across the rambling orchards of a childhood in the Turkish provinces and the smoke-filled cafes of European capitals, \u003ci\u003eCold Nights of Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally published in 1980, six years before her death at 43, \u003ci\u003eCold Nights of Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e cemented Tezer Özlü's status as one of Turkey's most beloved writers. A classic that deserves to stand alongside \u003ci\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/i\u003e and Jean Rhys's \u003ci\u003eGood Morning, Midnight\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCold Nights of Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Aysegül Savas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Transit Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/02\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945492693\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160","brand":"Tezer \u0026#214;zl\u0026#252;","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42761790587061,"sku":"9781945492693","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c0ce3377-87a3-40d5-b655-3c4bd63661bd.jpg?v=1678203549","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/cold-nights-of-childhood-9781945492693","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}