{"product_id":"dawn-9781953861382","title":"Dawn","description":"\u003cp\u003eA searing autobiographical novel about a single night in prison suggests how broken spirits can be mended  and dreams rebuilt through imagination and human kindness  Like Pamuks Snow  Dawn is the Turkish tragedy writ small. In contrast to Snow  it places gender at its heart. --Maureen Freely  In Dawn  translated into English for the first time  legendary Turkish feminist Sevgi Soysal brings together dark humor  witty observations  and trenchant criticism of social injustice  militarism  and gender inequality.  As night falls in Adana  kftes and cups of cloudy raki are passed to the dinner guests in the home of Ali  a former laborer who gives tight bear hugs  speaks with a southeastern lilt  and radiates the spirit of a child. Among the guests are a journalist named Oya  who has recently been released from prison and is living in exile on charges of leftist sympathizing  and her new acquaintance  Mustafa. A swift kick knocks down the front door and bumbling policemen converge on the guests  carting them off to holding cells  where theyll be interrogated and tortured throughout the night.  Fear spools into the anxious  claustrophobic thoughts of a return to prison  just after tasting freedom. Bristling snatches of Oyas time in prison rush back  the wild curses and wilder laughter of inmates  their vicious quarrels and rapturous belly-dancing  or the quiet boon of a cup of tea. Her former inmates created fury and joy out of nothing. Their brimming resilience wills Oya to fight through the night and is fused with every word of this blazing  lucid novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67976502607925,"sku":"ByrdShop_1953861385","price":38.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781953861382.jpg?v=1794651255","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/dawn-9781953861382","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}