by Emine Sevgi Özdamar · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420428079
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«La lengua de mi madre» is the short story collection by Emine Sevgi Özdamar, published by Alfaguara in paperback (168 pages, in Spanish).
Three stories link uprootedness and contact between Turkish and European cultures: a young Turkish woman trying to recover her grandfather's language; a man who emigrates to Germany with his donkey; and a cleaner who dreams of playing Ophelia.
Original title: «Mutterzunge» (1990); translated by Miguel Sáenz. This Spanish edition was published in 1996 in Alfaguara's Literaturas collection.
For readers interested in migration, cultural identity and contemporary European short fiction.
Emine Sevgi Özdamar is a writer, director, and actress of Turkish origin who has lived and worked in Germany since 1976. Özdamar's art is distinctive in that it is influenced by her life experiences, which straddle the countries of Germany and Turkey throughout times of turmoil in both. One of her most notable accomplishments is winning the 1991 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.
