The Girl in the Tree

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From an award-winning Turkish novelist comes a powerful English-language debut about a girl's coming of age amid violent unrest-and her unexpected escape. A young woman climbs the tallest tree in Istanbul's centuries-old Gulhane Park, determined to live out the rest of her days there. Perched in an abandoned stork's nest in a sanctuary of branch

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Inventive, emotionala wrenching account of a young woman doing her best to escape the violence of her society. Publishers Weekly Hugely enjoyed and unreservedly recommendsparky Istanbul teen has had enough of life at ground level (and rightly so.) Keeps spirit intact by moving into a storks nest. Strong Words Magazine, Twitter

Author Bio

ebnem igzel was born in 1973. Her first book, Hanene ay dogacak (The Future Looks Bright), won the prestigious Yunus Nadi Literature Award for published collections of short stories in 1993. She has gone on to write eight novels and two more short story collections. The Girl in the Tree, published in Turkey in 2016, is her first novel to be translated into English.