With penetrating insights into the poor man’s tragi-comic hunt for money in the surreal world of commerce, the final confrontation of brothers Halilhan and Hazmi provides the ‘open-end’ for a story of unending struggle. Swords of Ice , one of Latife Tekin’s best-loved novels, is part of a trilogy (with Dear Shameless Death and Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills - both available from Marion Boyars Publishers) based on her concern to voice the language of the underprivileged rural poor who migrate the fringes of the city and attempt to integrate with it.