Book of the day: A Strange Woman by Leyla Erbil
A Strange Woman is a novel written by Leyla Erbil. The book is divided in four parts. The first part is called Daughter and is set in Istanbul between 1950 and 52 and is narrated by a nineteen-year-old woman, Nermin. Nermin is a university student and writes poetry but she faces difficulties just for being a woman
. The second part is called The Father and Nermin tells the story of her father. The third part is called Mother, Nermin tells the story of her mother. The last part is called The Woman. Nermin talks about herself in the final part.
Leyla Erbil gives us a wonderful, feminist account of life of a woman in the middle of the last century, a woman who struggles to move away from the traditional role of women at that time.