3+1 Women

           Tigris flows slowly in summer and winter. He is in no hurry, he is not in a hurry, because he has a long way to go. of Tigris.

          It flows slowly in rainy weather, anyway. The rain falls slowly on the Tigris.

          It continues on its way straight through a flat plain.

          The walls are sad, exhausted, tired... They don't want to hear these voices anymore. He wants to destroy everything. He cannot look at the Tigris.

        Karacadağ turns red towards the evening. It turns a color between red and orange. You think there is a fire. That's when Karacadağ resembles an erupting volcano.

      The book you have in your hand is the story of teacher Eylül turning herself into a novel character as she witnesses the fate of three women plus one woman. Being lost in the novel she wrote was something Eylül had not planned, but becoming a character in her novel. In a way, it is a narrative about the difficult lives of women, the creators of life, and the story of recreating a city despite all the difficulties, with the testimony of the Tigris, the Walls and Karacadağ. This is the story of Diyarbakır becoming a plus to these three places, just like Eylül. The author invites us to a well-known but forgotten time when space creates people and people create space.

     Novel, In addition to its subject, it attracts attention with its short sentences, a style that resembles a folk narrative, and its technically postmodern layers. Songül Kartal deserves a chance with this first book.