Murat Isik
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Image credit: Murat Isik (1977) (boekomslag)
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- Legal name
- Isik, Murat
- Birthdate
- 1977
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- jurist
auteur - Nationality
- Turkey (birth)
Netherlands - Birthplace
- Izmir, Turkey
- Associated Place (for map)
- Izmir, Turkey
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Een indrukwekkend boek over een Turkse jongen uit Izmir (Zaza) die in zijn vroege jeugd in Fleerde komt wonen. Hij heeft een redelijk vrolijke jeugd met zijn vriendjes, al domineert zijn vader het gezin. Als hij naar de Scholengemeenschap Reigersbos gaat, wordt hij gepest en dat gaat pas over als hij bevriend raakt met een nieuwe leerling die ook in Izmir is geboren. Metin blijft maar vriendelijk en meegaand, ondanks allerlei narigheid die hem overkomt. Aan het eind van zijn schooltijd durft show more hij wat meer voor zichzelf op te komen. Er staan prachtige verhalen in dit boek, over de junks in de Bijlmer, over de maffe redeneringen van zijn vader en over de buurman die een hoarder is. Het taalgebruik is bijzonder, hele mooie vergelijkingen. Af en toe heb ik hardop zitten lachen en op het eind moest ik ook wat huilen. show less
I finally finished this book.
I liked it a lot, it was one that gave me a peak into another person's life. Okay: it is fiction, but it's written in a manner, that it could have been an autobiography as well.
The story of a boy of 5 years old, immigrant, bullied at school, who lives in a part of Amsterdam that has a bad reputation throughout the whole country.
Metin's story of overcoming the problems life throws at him (both in his family as well as in the outside world) is mirrored in the show more story of the suburb. That started as an ambitious architectoral/housing project, but ended as a ghetto/destruction of part of the flats.
It was very interesting. The story gives information about a world that I know nothing about, but should at least know something of, living in the same country as Metin and other children like him.
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This book is one that I would have loved to listen to till the end. I did not start early enough to do so, before my subscription to audiobooks stopped. (Own choice.)
Now I'm partly through this book and I want to finish it. So.... I guess that I'll get it in hard copy or in ebook version. I'm hooked to this sad but wonderful story! show less
I liked it a lot, it was one that gave me a peak into another person's life. Okay: it is fiction, but it's written in a manner, that it could have been an autobiography as well.
The story of a boy of 5 years old, immigrant, bullied at school, who lives in a part of Amsterdam that has a bad reputation throughout the whole country.
Metin's story of overcoming the problems life throws at him (both in his family as well as in the outside world) is mirrored in the show more story of the suburb. That started as an ambitious architectoral/housing project, but ended as a ghetto/destruction of part of the flats.
It was very interesting. The story gives information about a world that I know nothing about, but should at least know something of, living in the same country as Metin and other children like him.
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This book is one that I would have loved to listen to till the end. I did not start early enough to do so, before my subscription to audiobooks stopped. (Own choice.)
Now I'm partly through this book and I want to finish it. So.... I guess that I'll get it in hard copy or in ebook version. I'm hooked to this sad but wonderful story! show less
A wonderful time piece of the Bijlmermeer, a neighbourhood in Amsterdam where in 1992 an airplane crashed into several flats. The writer, originating from Turkey, came to live there with his parents and sister in the 80's and he tells a captivating story.
Schitterende debuutroman, over een jongentje dat probeert te begrijpen waarom zijn hele leven op zijn kop wordt gezet nadat zijn vader een ongeluk kreeg, over "gedwongen" migratie van een gezin dat daardoor bijna uiteenspat en toch ook sterker wordt.
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