A01=Elisabeth Sheffield
Author_Elisabeth Sheffield
Category=FBA
eq_bestseller
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=0
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_modern-contemporary
eq_nobargain
Product details
- ISBN 9781573661508
- Weight: 450g
- Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 30 Aug 2009
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
While working at a sleep lab in northern Germany, Rosemarie Ramee, a 38-year-old American neurologist, falls in love with Aslan, an eleven-year-old Turkish Cypriot. To get closer to the boy, RR undertakes a 'marriage of convenience' to the boy's uncle. But when the uncle suddenly disappears, Ramee, alone with Aslan, must take the boy to his relatives in northern Cyprus. A train journey ensues, chronicled in RR's psychological reports and neurological inquiries. But what begins as an objective 'report' breaks down as the story progresses: RR's voice, hitherto suppressed and analytical, emerges hesitantly and then erupts, splintering every conception of inner and outer lives, solipsistic reality, and the irrevocable past. Consistently surprising and unrelenting, ""Fort Da"" turns one woman's illicit affair into a riveting exploration of language and the mind.
Elisabeth Sheffield is the author of the novel Gone. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
