{"product_id":"lojman-paperback-1","title":"Lojman - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEbru Ojen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAron Aji\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eSelin Gökçesu\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbandoned 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLojman\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in startling, raw prose, this novel -- the author's first to be translated into English -- is reminiscent of Elena Ferrante's masterful \u003ci\u003eDays of Abandonment\u003c\/i\u003e, though its private dramas are made all the more vivid against an imposing natural landscape that exerts a powerful, life-threatening force. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn short, propulsive chapters, \u003ci\u003eLojman\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbru Ojen\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1981 to Kurdish parents in Malatya, Turkey. In 1984, the family moved further east to Van, when her schoolteacher father was relocated by the state. After Ojen finished high school in Van, she moved to Izmir, completing her university education at Dokuz Eylul University's Opera and Acting program. In 2014, Ojen published her striking debut novel, \u003ci\u003eAşı\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eVaccine\u003c\/i\u003e), about a state-sponsored vaccine campaign in an imaginary Kurdish village. That same year, Ojen was recognized among the ten most important emerging voices in Turkish literature. Her next novel, \u003ci\u003eLet the Carnivores Kill Each Other\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 2017, followed by \u003ci\u003eLojman\u003c\/i\u003e, in 2020, which City Lights will publish in English in August of 2023. She currently resides in Istanbul, Turkey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAron Aji\u003c\/b\u003e, Director of Translation programs at the University of Iowa, is a native of Turkey, and has translated works by modern and contemporary Turkish writers, including Bilge Karasu, Elif Shafak, Latife Tekin, Murathan Mungan, and Ferit Edgu. His Karasu translations include \u003ci\u003eDeath in Troy\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Garden of Departed Cats\u003c\/i\u003e, (2004 National Translation Award); and \u003ci\u003eA Long Day's Evening\u003c\/i\u003e (NEA Literature Fellowship; Finalist, 2013 PEN Translation Prize). His forthcoming translations are Ferid Edgü's \u003ci\u003eWounded Age and Eastern Tales\u003c\/i\u003e (NYRB, 2022), and Mungan's \u003ci\u003eTales of Valor\u003c\/i\u003e (co-translated with David Gramling) (Global Humanities Translation Prize, Northwestern UP, 2022), and \u003ci\u003eThe Behaviour of Words\u003c\/i\u003e by Efe Duyan (White Pine Press, 2023). Aji was president of The American Literary Translators Association between 2016-2019. He currently resides in Iowa City, Iowa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelin Gökcesu\u003c\/b\u003e is a Brooklyn-based writer and Turkish translator. She has a PhD in psychology and an MFA in writing from Columbia University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47254888546553,"sku":"9780872868984","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/28IN-9W5mG9780872868984_1c673a11-2211-4b07-be85-e048afa7c48d.webp?v=1768717050","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/lojman-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}