Perihan Magden
Autore di Two Girls
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Courtesy of Serpent's Tail Press
Opere di Perihan Magden
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Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Magden, Perihan
- Data di nascita
- 1960
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Turkije
- Nazione (per mappa)
- Turkije
- Luogo di nascita
- Istanbul, Turkije
- Luogo di residenza
- Istanbul, Turkije
Utenti
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 25
- Utenti
- 180
- Popolarità
- #119,865
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 44
- Lingue
- 8
The story is mostly narrated by the daughter, who is in her teens by the end and who remembers things from her earlier childhood as the book goes along. She talks about her life with her mother, living in hotels and then leaving suddenly, leaving clothes, toys, collections of rocks behind, running with nothing more than a backpack. And starting again in another hotel.
They often spend several months in one hotel, which made me wonder what they were running from. The girl's description of her mother's behavior suggests that the mother might be imagining her pursuers. Yet there is something about the whole situation that needs an explanation.
Here and there are chapters told from the point of view of observers. People at the hotels who see the girl, who see the mother, who even try to interact with them, although they tend to not welcome it.
We are left wondering about what kind of woman the girl had become, how much her "prayerbook", Bambi, had influenced her, how much she had internalized her mother's story about the world.
I had sympathy for the girl but did not find the observers particularly likeable. The book leaves us with a lot to think and wonder about.… (altro)