More: A Novel - Hardcover

Günday, Hakan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1628727071 ISBN 13: 9781628727074

Publisher: Arcade Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

The award-winning More, by one of Turkey’s leading underground writers, is the world’s first novel about the refugee crisis.

The illegals climbed into the truck, and, after a journey of two hundred miles, they boarded ships and were lost in the night.”

Gaza lives on the shores of the Aegean Sea. At the age of nine he becomes a human trafficker, like his father. Together with his father and local boat owners Gaza helps smuggle desperate illegals,” by giving them shelter, food, and water before they attempt the crossing to Greece. One night everything changes and Gaza is suddenly faced with the challenge of how he himself is going to survive. This is a heartbreaking work that examines the lives of refugees struggling to flee their homeland and the human traffickers who help them reach Europe for a price.

In this timely and important book, one of the first novels to document the refugee crisis in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, we see firsthand how the realities of war, violence, and migration affect the daily lives of the people who live there. This is a powerful exploration of the unfolding crisis by one of Turkey’s most exciting and critically acclaimed young writers who writes unflinchingly about social issues.

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Review

"The importance of this novel . . . lies in its horrific portrayals of refugees fleeing desperate situations. . . . [A] complex, Dostoyevsky-like inquiry into man’s capacity for evil." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Ambitious, compelling . . . The visceral punch and drive of its prose in many bravura passages . . . evokes Irvine Welsh or William Burroughs more than Oliver Twist.” —Economist

Imagine a nine-year-old child assisting his father with the family business the ruthless smuggling of humans. Imagine this child’s apprenticeship in profit and survival and unspeakable cruelties that numb him to what it means to be human. Imagine this child’s graduation from bystander to killer. Hakan Günday will take you there in his unflinching and momentous novel More.” Ursula Hegi, New York Times bestselling author of Stones from the River

"This urgent novel by one of Turkey's most acclaimed contemporary writers demands to be read not just because of its subject matter, the current migrant crisis and human trafficking, but because of its timeless exploration of violence, fidelity to family, and the extremes to which any of us will go to craft a new life from the wreckage of an old one. This translation of Hakan Günday's work is a gift." Elliot Ackerman, author of Green on Blue

"An unflinching, compelling novel that sweeps away abstractions like refugee crisis and plunges us head first into the agony of a world where human lives bleed against lines drawn on a map." Siddhartha Deb, author of The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India

"Günday has created a moral maze of a novel, making us think deeply about one of the most pressing and tragic crises of our modern world." National (Abu Dhabi)

"Move over Orhan Pamuk. There's an exciting new Turkish novelist in town. [A] dark and unrelenting voyage into a modern Celine-an hell, [More] takes on one of the most significant issues facing the world today. . . . This is a disturbing, politically charged portrait of the refugee crisis. A Tin Drum for a new generation." Kirkus Reviews

Hakan Günday is one of the rising stars of the Turkish literary scene.” Time Out Istanbul

Hakan Günday captures contemporary Turkey in all its complexities.” Livres Hebdo

More is masterful, and epic.” Alternatives Internationales

A dark journey through the psyche of a child who becomes a torturer. The book packs a punch.” Pelerin

About the Author

Hakan Günday was born in 1976 on the island of Rhodes in Greece and currently lives in Istanbul. He is the bestselling author of eight novels, which have been published in nineteen territories. His first novel, Kinyas Kayra, was published in 2000, and is considered the first underground novel in Turkey. His novel More received Le Prix Medicis Etranger 2015 and the award for Best Turkish Novel of 2011. His novel Ziyan was a finalist for the Prize Lorientales 2015 in France and was awarded the France-Turkey 2014 Author Award. He lives in Istanbul.

Zeynep Beler is a translator of Turkish-language literature. She has translated many Turkish novels into English, including works by Mario Levi and Karin Karakasli. She lives in Istanbul.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1628727071
• ISBN 13: 9781628727074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 404