Lost ground

Title: Lost Ground

Writer: Murat Isik

Binding: Hardcover

EAN: 9789026347337

Condition: Good

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- New: Book is new.

Description:
Lost Ground is the debut novel by Murat Isik, an epic novel about a family that is torn apart partly by fate, partly by its own doing. Winner of the Bronze Owl Audience Award.

Lost Ground, loosely inspired by Murat Isik's own family history, is an epic novel about a family torn apart partly by fate and partly by their own doing. A poignant father-son story about friendship, loss and hope. Isik won the Bronze Owl Audience Award for Lost Ground. The book has been translated into German, Swedish and Turkish.

Eastern Turkey, 1960s. Thirteen-year-old Mehmet grows up in a village that was once founded by the Armenians. His gentle father, who lost almost his entire family in the First World War, is a beloved storyteller, his mother a powerful woman who is feared by everyone because of her sharp tongue. Together with Mehmet's brother and sister, they form a close-knit family. But that changes abruptly when his father has an accident with tragic consequences.

'An un-Dutch debut novel. Well written, powerful and compelling, and so completely different from the average introverted debut that you forget you've read a firstling.' – Het Parool

'Isik's style is so completely natural that after a while you stop paying attention to it and let yourself be carried away by the story, the lifelike characters, the scenes constructed with a great sense of timing.' – De Standaard

'A smooth writing style that effortlessly draws the reader along and paints a world in warm colours that is completely different from ours.' – Noordhollands Dagblad

'A creditable debut from a new writer who is above all a storyteller.' – Passionate Magazine

'An unusual Dutch-language debut.' – VPRO Gids

'Beautiful, colorful and so moving that tears suddenly flow down your cheeks.' – Flow