Review:
Women Who Blow On Knots
by Ece Temelkuran
From Planet 228

Planet 228

Stevie Davies reviews
Women Who Blow On Knots
by Ece Temelkuran
(translated from Turkish by Alexander Dawe)

Waterfalls of Stars

Parthian, £9.99

After a single chapter of Ece Temelkuran’s bestselling novel, I’d fallen in love. When you’re laughing and crying under a writer’s spell, and receiving these delicious aperçus that light up your inner world, and loving the characters, you’re doomed to go around buttonholing everyone you meet: ‘Let me tell you about this amazing Turkish writer.’ Temelkuran is perhaps the bravest writer we’ll ever read – the funniest, the maddest, the sanest, the most intelligent and the most original.

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About the author

Stevie Davies is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Swansea University, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Welsh Academy. Stevie has published widely in the fields of fiction, literary criticism, biography and popular history. The Element of Water (2001) was long-listed for the Booker and Orange Prizes and won the Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year. Kith & Kin (2004) was short-listed for the Orange Prize.