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Life is a Carawanserai Has Two Doors I Went in One I Came out the Other

Emine Sevgi Özdamar

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1992
Originally in
Originally in German
Pages
Pages 380

A girl grows up in a Turkish family that keeps moving city, through poverty, prayers, the dead she counts each night and a country in upheaval, until she boards a train to Germany to work in a factory.

First I saw the soldiers. I stood there in my mother's belly between the bars of ice, wanting to hold on, and grasped the ice.
Life is a Carawanserai Has Two Doors I Went in One I Came out the Other, Emine Sevgi Özdamar

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