by Emine Sevgi Özdamar · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420441566
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«La lengua de mi madre» is the novel by Emine Sevgi Özdamar published by Alfaguara in paperback as a special 35th anniversary edition, in Spanish.
The novel starts from the narrator's relationship with her mother tongue to explore how identity, memory and experience intertwine. Through evocative prose, the author reflects on the weight of words and on the way the past is reconstructed from language.
Novel originally published in 1999; the edition commemorates the 35th anniversary of the Literariamente Apasionantes collection. Text in Spanish.
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.
