The Bridge of the Golden Horn. Translated by Martin Chalmers.
This picaresque account of a young girl’s intellectual and sexual coming of age from the mid-Sixties to the mid-Seventies, through her adventures in Berlin, Istanbul and Paris, enacts multiple acts of translation and transmutation. Emine Sevgi Ozdamar’s enunciation of an identity that begins in Turkish and moves into a bold, re-forged and enriched German is […]