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Lojman (Paperback)
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Lojman (Paperback)
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Loot Price R325
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Abandoned by her husband, marooned by an epic snowstorm, a mother
gives birth to her third child. Her sense of entrapment turns into
a desperate rage in this unblinking portrait of a woman whose
powerlessness becomes lethal. Lojman tells, on its surface,
the domestic tale of a Kurdish family living in a small village on
a desolate plateau at the foot of the snow-capped mountains of
Turkey’s Van province. Virtually every aspect of the family’s
life is dictated by the government, from their exile to the
country’s remote, easternmost region to their sequestration in
the grim "teacher’s lodging"—or lojman—to which they’re
assigned. When Selma’s husband walks out one day, he leaves in
his wake a storm of resentment between his young children and a
mother reluctant to parent them. Written in startling, raw
prose, this novel — the author’s first to be translated
into English — is reminiscent of Elena Ferrante’s masterful
Days of Abandonment, though its private dramas are made all the
more vivid against an imposing natural landscape that exerts a
powerful, life-threatening force. In short, propulsive
chapters, Lojman spins a domestic drama crystallized through the
family’s mental and physical claustrophobia. Vivid daydreams
morph with cold realities, and as the family’s descent reaches
its nadir, their world is transformed into a surreal, gelatinous
prison from which there is no escape.
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