Ödlekler Cesurdur, William Saroyan dizisinin ilk kitabı, Saroyan ile Türkiyeli okuru buluşturma gayesinin ilk adımı. Yüreği Bitlisli ninelerinden, dedelerinden dinleyerek öğrendiği Anadolu toprağında, Bitlis'te kalmış bir Amerikalı Ermeni'nin dünyasını merak edenlere eşsiz bir fırsat... Ödlekler Cesurdur öykülerinde anlatılan kendilerini yaşadıkları yere ait hissetmeyenlerin dramıdır. Saroyan'ın öykücülüğü öylesine özgün, dili öylesine akıcı ve iğneleyicidir ki, bu tarz zamanla edebiyat eleştirmenlerince «Saroyanesk» diye adlandırılmıştır. Yapıtlarındaki yalınlık, içtenlik benzersizdir. Bir solukta okuyacağınız 14 öyküden oluşan William Saroyan'ın bu kitabı, sizi yüzyılın başından alıp Bitlis, Erzurum, Trabzon, Marsilya, New York, Fresno yolunda yaşanan açlık, yoksulluk ve güvensizlik içinde bile yaşama sevinçlerini kaybetmeyen küçük insanların dramı ile günümüze taşıyacaktır.
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Works of American writer William Saroyan include short stories, such as "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" (1934), plays, most notably The Time of Your Life (1939), and novels. This Armenian author set much in Fresno, sometimes under a fictional name, the center of life in California. From Bitlis, Turkey, his parents migrated. After death of his father at the age of three years in 1911, people placed Saroyan in the orphanage in Oakland, California, together with his brother and sister, an experience he later described. Five years later, in 1916, the family reunited in Fresno, where his mother, Takoohi Saroyan, secured work at a cannery. He continued his own education and took odd jobs, such as working as an office manager for the San Francisco telegraph company, for support. After his mother showed him some of his father, he decided. Overland Monthly published a few of his early short articles. His first stories appeared in the 1930s. The Armenian journal Hairenik published "The Broken Wheel" under the name Sirak Goryan in 1933. Childhood experiences among the Armenian fruit of the San Joaquin Valley based much that dealt with the rootlessness of the migrant. The collection My Name is Aram (1940), an international bestseller, about a young boy and the colorful characters of his migrant family. People translated it into many languages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William\_...
