TY - BOOK AU - Altan,Ahmet Hüsrev AU - Çongar,Yasemin AU - Sands,Philippe Joseph TI - I will never see the world again SN - 9781783785155 (paperback) AV - PL 248 A465w 2019 U1 - 894/.3533 PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - Granta Books KW - Altan, Ahmet KW - Altan, Ahmet, KW - Journalism KW - Turkey KW - Novela turca KW - Literatura turca KW - Periodismo KW - Turquía KW - Political crimes and offenses KW - Delitos políticos KW - Politics and government KW - 1980- KW - Política y gobierno KW - 980- N2 - The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await the decision that will determine my future, just as he awaited his. I am unaware of my destiny, which has perhaps already been decided, just as he was unaware of his. I suffer the pathetic torment of profound helplessness, just as he did. Like a cursed oracle, I foresaw my future years ago not knowing that it was my own. Confined in a cell four metres long, imprisoned on absurd, Kafkaesque charges, novelist Ahmet Altan is one of many writers persecuted by Recep Tayyip Erdogan's oppressive regime. In this extraordinary memoir, written from his prison cell, Altan reflects upon his sentence, on a life whittled down to a courtyard covered by bars, and on the hope and solace a writer's mind can provide, even in the darkest place ER -