Every Fire You Tend by Sema Kaygusuz games A glittering array of stars

A glittering array of stars turn out in London for a Royal Film Premiere

for a memoir and a new novel

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she is turned into a wooden statue and tucked away into an alcove in the Great Library of Alyssium

' Nicole Krauss

Every Fire You Tend by Sema Kaygusuz games A glittering array of starsA lyrical, highly allusive narrative by one of Turkeys great contemporary authors. In 1938, in the remote Dersim region of Eastern Anatolia, the Turkish Republic launched an operation to erase an entire community of Zaza speaking Alevi Kurds. Inspired by those brutal events, and the survival of Kaygusuzs own grandmother, this densely lyrical and allusive novel grapples with the various inheritances of genocide, gendered violence and historical memory