{"product_id":"turkish-delight-paperback-1","title":"Turkish Delight - 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\u003eJan Wolkers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSam Garrett\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpon its original publication in 1969, \u003cem\u003eTurkish Delight\u003c\/em\u003e was a sensation and a scandal. Its graphic language and explicit sex scenes had an explosive effect, but just as revolutionary was its frank, colloquial style. The more straightlaced critics condemned the book, but readers saw a novel that reflected the way that they spoke, thought, and felt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eTurkish Delight\u003c\/em\u003e opens with a screed: a sculptor in his studio, raging against the love he lost and describing, in gory detail, the state of his life since she left him. Our narrator alternates between the story of his relationship with Olga--its passion and affection, but also its obsessiveness and abuse--and the dark days that followed, as he attempts to recapture what they had when they lived together, \"happy as beasts.\" The two only reunite during Olga's inexorable and tragic decline into cancer--the chemo having taken her hair and rotted her teeth, she will only eat the soft, sweet Turkish Delight that her ex-lover brings to her bedside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a new translation by Sam Garrett (Herman Koch's \u003cem\u003eThe Dinner\u003c\/em\u003e), readers get a sense of Wolkers's revolutionary style and musical prose, \u003cem\u003eTurkish Delight\u003c\/em\u003e's particular balance of naked impulse and profound longing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTin House Books gratefully acknowledges the support of the Dutch Foundation for Literature, whose generous subsidy made this new translation possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJan Wolkers\u003c\/b\u003e was an author, sculptor, and one of the \"Great Four\" writers of Dutch literature. In over forty years Jan Wolkers (1925-2007) wrote a great number of novels, stories, and essays. He also worked as painter and a sculptor. The Auschwitz Monument in Wertheimpark in Amsterdam is one of his works. With his novels and stories he liberated himself and his readers from religion and the stifling and oppressive atmosphere of post war Holland. Turks fruit (Turkish Delight), 1969, also represented the sexual revolution of the sixties. Among the Protestant community his work aroused much resistance, but his success was not to be stopped. With works like Kort Amerikaans (Crew Cut), Turks Fruit (Turkish Delight), Terug naar Oegstgeest (Return to Oegstgeest) and De walgvogel (The Dodo), Jan Wolkers is among the most widely translated Dutch authors. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor his translations of close to forty novels and works of nonfiction, Sam Garrett (b. Harrisburg, PA, 1956) has won prizes and appeared on short lists for some of the world's most prestigious literary awards. Garrett is the only translator to have twice won the British Society of Authors' Vondel Prize for Dutch-English translation (in 2003 and again in 2009).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.7 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 07, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47248825057529,"sku":"9781941040478","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/AVQAo-74_l9781941040478_7a10aad2-14b2-4728-8581-885b03db760a.webp?v=1768641052","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/turkish-delight-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}