walkers

Melih Cevdet Anday, who masterfully synthesized each period of the social transformations after the Mesrutiyet, has a legacy from Abdulhamid's pharmacist Sükrü Pasha. He analyzes the society of republican Turkey through the novel heroes he places in the mansion.

Idles is one of the most compact novels of Turkish literature. The characters created with extraordinary success and the confident stance in the theme make this novel one of the best fictional texts in our literature.

... We were sinking but none of us knew. Let's leave Nesime and Sükrü aside, they are not family; What about me, my grandmother, my grandfather? Not one of us even thought about where bread comes from. I was about to say this at the table last night, Dündar Bey said, 'This is how the Ottoman Empire collapsed.' 'We did not know that our salaries were paid with taxes collected from the villagers, we thought that the state had some money in a corner and gave it to them. Talat Pasha does not know, Cemal Pasha does not know, Enver Pasha does not know why we entered the First World War. So who knows? Nobody knows...}



Number of Pages: 250

Printing Year: 2016
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Language: Turkish
Publisher: Everest Publications

First Edition Year: 2011

Number of Pages: 250

Language: Turkish