Sheffield, Elisabeth.

Fort Da: A Report.

Advance Reading Copy. Tuscaloosa, Fiction Collective 2 / The University of Alabama Press, 2009. 13.5 x 21cm. 310 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition, as new.

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. [From jacket notes]

• Keywords: 21st century · American Authors · American Literature · Fiction · Literature · Novel
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9781573661508
• Inventory Number: 91223AB

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