Burhan Sönmez, now President of PEN International, was born in Turkey in 1965. His mother tongue is Kurdish, which was stigmatised in Turkey during his youth. While practising law and campaigning for human rights in Istanbul, he was seriously injured during a murder attempt by the Turkish police in 1996 and left the country, receiving treatment in Britain and remaining in exile there for several years. He now splits his time between England and Istanbul. Sönmez a Senior Member of Hughes Hall College and Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
Lovers of Franz K. is his sixth novel.
Tancats dins d'una cel·la subterrània d'Istanbul quatre homes esperen els seus interrogadors. Per fer més suportable el temps combaten el silenci compartint històries plenes de tendresa i dolor, bastint un relat coral que gira sempre al voltant de la ciutat que els empresona. Durant...
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