Paperback, 128 pages

English language

Published June 6, 2025 by Arrowsmith Press.

ISBN:
9798991525480
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Crimean Fig / Qırım İnciri: Contemporary Crimean Tatar Poetry and Fiction features stories and poems, written by contemporary Crimea Tatar writers and poets, which are shadowed by history. Inevitably, they reflect the traumas endured by Crimean Tatars over the last three and a half centuries. They further chronicle the complex process of a population's efforts at reintegration into an ancestral land from which they'd been exiled over more than half a century. One hears, in both the stories and poems, a cultural and national pride, love for a land of stunning natural beauty, and a longing for the stability of peace.

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Fantastic and precious

Loved this. Only read the short stories - might go back and read the poems at some point, though I'm not so much of a poetry person and really only bought it for the literature. But the stories were excellent - some were funny or sweet, hopeful; others were deeply sad and heartbreaking and left my face wet with tears. But all shone a light on Crimean Tatar culture and life in a way that feels very precious.

Subjects

  • Crimea