Journey to the Edge of LifeTezer OzluLabel: Transit BooksDescription: A writer finds solitude and salvation tracing the lives and deaths of three of her literary lights in a haunted and lyrical travelogue from NBCC Award-winner Tezer Ozlu. An unnamed writer embarks on an obsessive journey through Europe drawn to the gravesites of her literary idols - Cesare Pavese Italo Svevo Franz Kafka - putting her life her writing and her politics in conversation with theirs. Untethered and spirit-like herself she moves among European cities: Berlin Hamburg Prague Vienna Zagreb and Belgrade. At times there are companions - lovers and others - but she remains steadfast in her solitude. As she is uncannily drawn to Pavese's suicide her journey transmutes passion for literature into desire for meaning. Occupying a liminal space between past and present life and death Journey to the Edge of Life is a deeply inquisitive atmospheric and rebellious novel that shows what such a journey can mean for a woman who has spent her life within the confines established by others.
