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2018

Format:	Book
Author:	Erdoğan, Aslı, 1967- author.
Title:	The stone building and other places / Aslı Erdoğan ; translated from the Turkish by Sevinç Türkkan.
Publisher, Date:	San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2018]
Description:	174 pages ; 18 cm
Summary:	Three interconnected stories culminate in a short novella, whose stone building is a metaphor for the various oppressive institutions -- prisons, police HQs, hospitals and psychiatric asylums -- which dominate the lives of these characters. A distillation of the experience of exile and incarceration, both physical and mental, presented in moving, allegorical portraits of lives ensnared by the power structures.
Subjects:	Exile (Punishment) -- Turkey -- Fiction. Imprisonment -- Turkey -- Fiction. Short stories, Turkish. Turkey -- Social conditions -- 1960- -- Fiction.
Genre:	Short stories.
Other Author:	Türkkan, Sevinç translator.
Other Title:	Taş bina ve diğerleri. English
Notes:	Translation of: Taş bina ve diğerleri. "First published as Tas Bina in Istanbul, Turkey, by Everest Yayinlari in 2009. This edition is published in arrangement with Agence Littéraire Astier-Pécher"--Title page verso. In English, translated from the Turkish.
Contents:	The morning visitor -- Wooden birds -- The prisoner -- The stone building.
LCCN:	2017040160
ISBN:	9780872867505
Other Number:	1002043758
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Control Number:	709388
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Call Number:	FICTION Erdogan

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