The Bridge of the Golden Horn

By Emine Sevgi Özdamar

The Bridge of the Golden Horn is a coming-of-age novel, a sentimental education that is also a political, cultural and intellectual one. In 1966, at the age of 16, the unnamed heroine lies about her age and signs up as a migrant worker in Germany. She leaves Istanbul, works on an assembly line in West Berlin making radios, and lives in a women's factory hostel. But ?zdamar's novel is not about the problems of assembly line work - it's a witty, picaresque account of a precocious teenager refusing to become wise, of a hectic four years lived between Berlin and Istanbul, of a young woman who is obsessed by theatre, film, poetry and left-wing politics. These are sometimes grim years, particularly in Turkey, but they also have a hope and optimism that seem almost unimaginable today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852429321
• ISBN13: 9781852429324
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.6"