The Stone Building and Other Places

Synopsis

Three Interconnected Stories Culminate In A Short Novella, Whose Stone Building Is A Metaphor For The Various Oppressive Institutions -- Prisons, Police Hqs, Hospitals And Psychiatric Asylums -- Which Dominate The Lives Of These Characters. A Distillation Of The Experience Of Exile And Incarceration, Both Physical And Mental, Presented In Moving, Allegorical Portraits Of Lives Ensnared By The Power Structures. Aslı Erdoğan ; Translated From The Turkish By Sevinç Türkkan.