Escape, Perihan Magden
Escape, Perihan Magden
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Escape

Author: Perihan Magden, Kenneth Dakan

Narrator: Julia Whelan

Unabridged: 6 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/11/2012


Synopsis

“There are questions like that. Questions that must never be asked. Subjects that must never be brought up.” Time passes slowly in the hotel rooms. This is what the daughter thinks. They’ve been moving since the beginning, in and out of hotels, sometimes staying for months, sometimes for a mere hour, but never with luggage, heavy things weighing them down. The mother and daughter are singular, a “Moon Unit,” revolving so far away that no one can touch them. They form attachments to no one, not the pool boy who watches the daughter swim for hours, nor the girl at the front desk who counts the moments she sees the daughter as little good luck charms for her day. They are bound together with a secret language, the beautiful girl loved solely by her mother, who will never ever ever leave her side. Prize-winning Turkish novelist and journalist Perihan Magden delivers a heartbreaking meditation on the intense and sometimes isolated love between a mother and daughter against the world.

About Perihan Magden

Perihan Magden is a novelist, a journalist, and winner of Turkey’s Grand Award for Freedom of Speech. Her novels are often inspired by seemingly insignificant items in the daily paper, and with Ali and Ramazan she sets to work breathing life into a one-line story about a tragedy in the underclass.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Micha on August 23, 2016

I found this to be an outstanding piece of literary fiction and Perihan Magden an amazing novelist. Her writing is so strong, with such a distinct style that it's even obvious in translation. I particularly enjoyed the fact that there's an author who doesn't spell it all out for the reader like most......more

Goodreads review by Cansu on March 21, 2023

Mutlulukla 5 puan veriyorum. Şimdiye kadar okuduğum en iyi kitaplardan biriydi. İnsanı sımsıkı kavrayan sürükleyici bir anlatımla yazılmıştı ve beni derin bir tekinsizlik hissiyle sarıp sarmaladı. Kitabın yarısına geldiğimde, olayın aslını anlamaya başladım ve daha da merakla okudum. Gizem, polisiye......more

Goodreads review by Mack on October 28, 2012

I love this book. Hard-edged crime fiction is what you will usually find me reading. Then a book like Escape comes along to remind me why I need to widen my interests. Escape has stuck with me long after finished reading it...for the second time. An unnamed mother and daughter flee from an unspecifie......more

Goodreads review by Moon on April 03, 2023

Kitabın ilk başlarında hikayeden biraz sıkılmıştım açıkçası, gerilim ve tekinsizliği tam olarak hissedememiştim. Kitabın ortalarına doğru hikaye hakkında daha fazla detay ortaya çıkmaya başladı, hikayeyi çözmeye çalışırken gerilim ve tekinsizlik hissi de beni sarmaya başladı. Kurgu ve anlatım biçimi......more

Goodreads review by Shirin on November 28, 2010

The English version of the book isn't online but this is it! Whom Were We Running From, Mother? is from a Turkish author I hadn't heard about until I picked up the book in an airport bookstore, oddly enough. And very different from other Turkish authors I've read (Pamuk, Shafak), Mağden has a minima......more