FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE TRANSLATION PRIZE

The narrator of Tezer zls novel is between lovers. She is in and out of psychiatric wards, where she is forced to undergo electroshock treatments. She is between Berlin and Paris. She returns to Istanbul, in search of freedom, happiness, and new love.

Set across the rambling orchards of a childhood in the Turkish provinces and the smoke-filled cafes of European capitals, Cold Nights of Childhood offers a sensual, unflinching portrayal of a womans sexual encounters and psychological struggle, staging a clash between unbridled feminine desire and repressive, patriarchal society.Originally published in 1980, six years before her death at 43, Cold Nights of Childhood cemented Tezer zls status as one of Turkeys most beloved writers. A classic that deserves to stand alongside The Bell Jar and Jean Rhys’sGood Morning, Midnight, Cold Nights of Childhood is a powerfully vivid, disorienting, and bittersweet novel about the determined embrace of life in all its complexity and confusion, translated into English here for the first time by Maureen Freely, with an introduction by Aysegl Savas.

Paperback | 160 pages | 5.25″ x 8.00″