Thanks to Emily LaBeaume of Wunderkind PR, I am giving away one copy of Escape.
Book Description:
It is a quietly haunting story about a single mother who is willing to do whatever it takes to protect her daughter. No one, not anyone, can be trusted. And when anyone gets too close or makes a wrong move, the mother is quick to respond – either by moving on or, when necessary, “teaching them a lesson.” The “Moon Unit,” as mother and daughter lovingly call themselves, stays as isolated from society as possible. They move from hotel to hotel, all over the world, sometimes staying for only a few hours, sometimes for months on end.
They are running from a past the mother refuses to discuss and from a future she cannot stand to face. ESCAPE is the portrait of a single mother who has been harried to a point where she believes society to be pure evil. She has, quite simply, had enough. From this dangerous point of view, defending the one person you love more than anything, your child, can easily and quickly get out of hand … and cross the border between sanity and insanity …
Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature, calls Magden “one of the most inventive and outspoken writers of our time” and Mehmet Murat Somer compares Magden to Patricia Highsmith when it comes to finding a way to make her readers empathize with the criminally insane.
About Perihan Magden:
Born in Istanbul, Perihan Magden has written novels, poetry, and a column in Turkey’s national daily newspaper, Radikal. She is the author of two novels currently available in English, Messenger Boy Murders and 2 Girls, as well as Escape and The Companion.
2 Girls was made into film by director Kutlug Ataman and premiered at the 2005 London Film Festival. Her novels have been translated into eighteen languages, including German, French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, and Dutch. She is an honorary member of British PEN and winner of the Grand Award for Freedom of Speech by the Turkish Publishers Association.
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