Bakır Gök

Emiliano Monge "visualizes the history of Mexico in his mind like a wall covered with a white cloth, and through the small holes he opens in this cover." asks the reader to guess the rest. Germán Alcántra is a person of that geography where conflict and violence are the only rules of the barren plains, from conception to death. And under a copper-coloured sky, far from the sweet intoxication of any kind of lyricism, his story progresses with the rhythmic breathing of a machine that almost grinds everything in its path. That unknown geography, where violence, fierce and cold, crawling under every rock and without a subject, makes its presence felt like fate, like an element of the soil and the air, offers us a piece of all the societies characterized by violence in the twentieth century. From the 2012 Jaén Award-winning young writer, who is among the 25 most important writers of Latin America, for his readers who are brave and ready for a confronting and challenging read... In addition to the infected sawdust clippings, stone particles and sulfurous dust that the sick wind carries with it with all its might, its source is the shrub land. Unobtrusive noises and smells also travel: the sound of wings of poultry that we cannot see, the rotting corpse of a dead rabbit, the nervous rattle of a snake, the sound of blooming flowers surrounding spiny cacti...
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 184

Print Year: 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Yapı Kredi Publications

First Print Year: 2015

Language : Turkish