by Emine Sevgi Özdamar · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420427980
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«La vida es un caravasar» is the historical fiction novel by Emine Sevgi Özdamar, published by Alfaguara in paperback (360 pages, in Spanish).
The author narrates the childhood and youth of a Turkish girl whose family flees poverty from Bursa to Ankara and Istanbul. As an adult, the protagonist emigrates to Germany in search of another life. With a language of metaphors and poetry, she interweaves characters and destinies, and addresses identity, emigration, and the search for a place in the world.
Written in German, the novel belongs to the Literaturas collection and was translated by Miguel Sáenz. The novel won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (1991) and the Walter Hasenclever Prize (1993).
Aimed at readers of historical fiction and narrative with a female perspective, and at those interested in Turkish emigration and dialogue between cultures.
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.
