Old Friend Lizard

Everything, everything happened because of that woman. What beautiful coins I had clutched to my chest. They were soft. As soon as the thumb whistled I was out.

I was running down the silver road as if I were a puppet, my legs were wooden. Suddenly that evil woman's scream came to my wooden legs. My blue raincoat swelled with the wind. I prayed to God that my wind-blown raincoat would become a pair of wings. Old Dostum Kertenkele is the first novel of Şebnem İşigüzel, one of the most sincere and shocking voices of Turkish literature, written with a mastery and competence unexpected from a first novel. The novel of a robbery and a painful adventure. Our hero's life is filled with dreams of going to America; He shares his life with his golden-toothed aunt, his sister who talks with things, cinema maniac Başparmak, and Kedici, who is known for his ingenuity in collecting money on behalf of others. In his life created with dreams, there are little sweet things that console him and his aunt's daughter trying to get rid of the pain of love.

Old Friend Lizard is the novel of a soul divided into two, regret, escaping from love and trying to survive...

Every page is a reading festival. This author is a revelation.
DEUTSCHLANDRADIO KULTUR



Number of Pages: 125

< b>Print Year: 2010


Language: Turkish
Publisher: İletişim Yayıncılık

First Printing Year: 2010

Language: Turkish