{"product_id":"walking-isbn-9781962770712","title":"Walking","description":"\u003cb\u003eReading Sevgi Soysal today restores the volatility and violence of female concerns, and expands our horizons of understanding how inequality operates. —Helen Mackreath, \u003ci\u003eThe White Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalking\u003c\/i\u003e observes the braided lives of Elâ and Memet, two young people growing up in 1970s Yenişehir. Elâ is a girl swept up in the discomfort and excitement of becoming a woman. She plays dress up, trades secrets, and has her first kiss in a monastery garden. Later at university, she reads Hegel, Marx, and Heidegger, and reassures herself that there is still time to become a fully rounded person. Memet is a boy who wanders the labyrinthine streets of Tarlabaşı, thinking of dance halls, his guitar, and Playboy. He dreams of walking forward, out to the sea, and turning his back on the barbed conversations of sex that patter between boys and men. As Elâ and Memet’s story converges, a peopled vision of Turkey cascades before us: children selling green plums on the streets, mothers coming and going, or an old Greek man conveying passengers onto a ferry where folksongs rumble. Conversations give way to fragments of nature and beauty found along city streets. Soysal writes as one uncovering and restoring a fresco, tending to its bright and unpredictable edges.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalking \u003c\/i\u003eexplores questions of love, fury, freedom, and agency with piercing clarity. It tells of two young people making sense of their conflicted feelings about who they are and what they’ve been told. \u003ci\u003eEven if I am like you and you are like me, how can we be as one, how can we make love, if we cut ourselves off from this injustice? \u003c\/i\u003eFor Soysal, the outside world, its conflicts and injustices, always flows to the world within, a world of memory, rebellion, and the hope of morning's first light. Soysal's singularly humane vision restores dignity to transgressive desires and longings.\u003cb\u003eSevgi Soysal \u003c\/b\u003e(1936-1976) was born in Istanbul. Her work is inspired by her childhood in Ankara, youth and student movements in Turkey, revolutionary dreams, and experiences of leftist intellectuals in prison and in exile. In 1974, Soysal won the prestigious Orhan Kemal Award for Best Novel for \u003ci\u003eNoontime in Yenişehir\u003c\/i\u003e, which she wrote while in prison. \u003ci\u003eDawn\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1975, a beautiful thematic companion to her memoirs of prison life, which were originally published in the newspaper Politika and published in a single volume as \u003ci\u003eYıldırım Area Women's Ward\u003c\/i\u003e in 1976. She wrote a brilliant set of endearing and illuminating story collections, novels, and memoirs over the course of her short life. Soysal died at the age of 40 of cancer. She left behind an incomplete novel, \u003ci\u003eWelcome, Death!\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRANSLATOR BIO:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaureen Freely\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, translator, senior lecturer at Warwick University. Translator of five books by Orhan Pamuk, Fethiye Cetin’s \u003ci\u003eMy Grandmother\u003c\/i\u003e, and – with Alexander Dawe – Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s \u003ci\u003eThe Time Regulation Institute \u003c\/i\u003eand Sait Faik Abasıyanık’s \u003ci\u003eA Useless Man\u003c\/i\u003e, she is active in various campaigns to champion free expression. She has been a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e for two decades. Her novels include \u003ci\u003eSailing through Byzantium\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEnlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAngry in Piraeus\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Other Rebecca\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Archipelago","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48532223951077,"sku":"NP9781962770712","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781962770712.jpg?v=1773183109","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/walking-isbn-9781962770712","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}