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Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills
By Latife Tekin, John Berger, Saliha Paker and Ruth Christie
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The cast-offs of modern urban society are driven out onto the edges of the city and left to make a life there for themselves. They are not, however, in any natural wilderness, but in a world of refuse and useless junk - a place which denies any form of sustainable life. Here, the unemployed, the homeless, the old and the bereft struggle to build shelters out of old tin cans, scavenge for food and fight against insuperable odds. And yet somehow they survive: it seems that society thrives on the garbage hills because it has always been built on one. In this dark fairy tale full of scenes taken from what has increasingly become a way of life for many inhabitants on this planet, Latife Tekin has written a grim parable of human destiny.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5More of a catalogue of the goings on in an evolving squatter camp on a mountain of garbage somewhere in Turkey. My first and probably last Turkish novel this was not a character study. But the thin stories that were told did show growth and community in what are difficult urban circumstances.