Murat Isik
Author of Wees onzichtbaar
About the Author
Image credit: Murat Isik (1977) (boekomslag)
Works by Murat Isik
Associated Works
Weer open! — Author, some editions — 7 copies
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- Legal name
- Isik, Murat
- Birthdate
- 1977
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Turkey (born)
The Netherlands - Country (for map)
- The Netherlands
Turkey - Birthplace
- Izmir, Turkey
- Occupations
- jurist
auteur
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Statistics
- Works
- 5
- Also by
- 2
- Members
- 284
- Popularity
- #82,067
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 15
- ISBNs
- 22
- Languages
- 2
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 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!… (more)