YOUNG TURK

Book ID/图书代码： 11908508B25068

English Summary/英文概要： Through a series of 13 linked stories connected by a circle of young friends, Moris Farhi writes of the trials and joys of children coming of age in an increasingly dangerous and politicized world: Turkey just before, during, and after World War II. The death at the beginning is that of a girl endowed with second sight, who sees the war and the Holocaust coming and can’t bear the gift of life. For Musa, a boy allowed into the women’s bath like a fly in a bowl of naked fruit, the change comes when one woman notices his manhood. Bilal, a Jew, sets off for occupied Greece to rescue his relatives and never comes back. Davut participates in a plot to save a poet who is a national hero and anathema to the ruling party, and finds his innocence abused by the plotters. Here is a novel that captures the richness of a moment in history and the timeless aspirations of youth.

Against the backdrop of Nazism, in a multi-racial Turkey giving sanctuary to many of Europe’s fleeing Jews, a group of teenage friends struggles to understand events while reeling from (and relishing) the sexual and emotional discoveries of adolescence. An alluring woman initiates Mustafa and his classmates in the carnal delights of rose petal jam; Musa discovers the hard facts of reaching manhood when he is expelled from the women’s baths; Bilal, a 14-year-old Jewish boy, sets off for Greece to rescue his mother’s sister; and a circus orphan known only as ’Girl’ falls head over heels for the new trapeze artist ...Young Turk is a novel in thirteen positions. Reminiscent of Julio Cortazar and Italo Calvino, this is a wise, craftily spun and spine-tinglingly erotic tale of love, courage and the forging of conscience.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 這是一本由13個故事串聯的感人小說。每個故事主人翁都有其不同的背景，而讀者最後將會發現13篇故事都是息息相關。
故事背景是德國納粹主義極其強大的時候，土耳其殿堂收容了許多逃難的猶太人民。一群年輕孩子，他們為了生存、各自的理想或是尋找失去的親人所發生的感人作品…(CL)

Awards/获奖情况：Sold: US (Arcadia), France (Buchet-Castel), Italy (Lavoro), Holland (De Geus), Israel (Carmel Publishing), Turkey (Itakhi), Poland (Noir sur Blanc)

About the Author/作者介绍： Moris Farhi was born in Turkey in 1935. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1956, and became a British citizen in 1964. His novels include the award-winning Children of the Rainbow and Journey through the Wilderness. He is a vice-president of International PEN, and in 2001 was appointed an MBE for ‘services to literature’. He lives in London.
Moris Farhi是國際筆友會的副主席，他的文筆深受各界肯定。Moris 1935年出生於土耳其，1964年成為英國公民，畢業於英國最古老的戲劇學校 -皇家戲劇藝術學院。
他的前作《Children of the Rainbow》和《Journey Through the Wilderness》版權售出11國。而Young Turk也榮獲(Alberto Benveniste Prize for Literature for the French edition)獎項。Moris的新作A Designated Man也將於09年9月出版。

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