Maureen Freely, Aysegül Savas, and Merve Emre discuss 'Cold Nights of Childhood' by Tezer Özlü

On June 27, 2023, Third Place Books, Community Bookstore, and the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith were pleased to welcome critic Merve Emre, author Aysegül Savas, and translator Maureen Freely for a panel discussion of Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü. The Bell Jar meets Good Morning, Midnight, by one of Turkey’s most beloved writers.

Originally published in 1980, six years before her death at 43, Cold Nights of Childhood cemented Tezer Özlü’s status as one of Turkey’s most beloved writers. A classic that deserves to stand alongside The Bell Jar and Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight, Cold Nights of Childhood is a powerfully vivid, disorienting, and bittersweet novel about the determined embrace of life in all its complexity and confusion, translated into English here for the first time by Maureen Freely, with an introduction by Aysegül Savas.