Summary
Ece Temelkuran: Women Who Blow in Knots
Women Who Blow in Knots is a road novel that looks at the possibilities and rights of women in the contemporary Islamic world from a female perspective, through a journey from Tunisia to Lebanon. A man who broke a woman's heart... Four women who decided to cross the desert to kill him... The literary work of the famous Turkish writer and journalist Eca Temelkuran Women Who Blow Knots is the story of that journey. It is the first novel of its kind. So far, no one has written a road novel in Turkish in which the four main characters are non-Western women and whose action takes place in the Middle East and North Africa. The main heroines in the novel are truly exceptional and complex: they are actually contemporary Muslim women who are in search of their essence. They are at the same time vulnerable and strong, fragile and determined... The decision to embark on a journey without a pre-arranged destination and goal - except for the revenge forged by Madame Lilla - and the way in which these women support each other and exchange the most intimate stories offer us the opportunity to question together with them the relationship between chance and fate, as well as real and apparent life. In the book, the personal turns into the political and vice versa, so reading the book we become aware of the fact that in everyday life the political sphere is intertwined with the most intimate.
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